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Secondhand booksellers across Europe and beyond are reporting a surge in large, unexplained orders for old and obscure titles, raising suspicions that artificial intelligence companies are buying physical books for training data.
Secondhand booksellers across Europe are expressing concerns that AI companies are acquiring large numbers of obscure and rare books, potentially destroying them in the process of training artificial intelligence models.
Secondhand booksellers in the UK and Ireland are reporting a boom in sales, with many suspecting that artificial intelligence firms are behind unusual bulk orders of books.
Secondhand booksellers in Australia are expressing concern over the alleged destruction of rare and old books after they are scanned, suspecting they are part of a supply chain feeding AI training data.