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An open antique book with its pages dissolving into streams of glowing digital data, illustrating AI companies destroying physical books to train models.

AI's 'Book Burning': Why Companies Are Destroying Millions of Physical Books to Train Their Models

AI firms bought millions of print books, sliced off the bindings, scanned the pages, and shredded the originals — and a court ruled it was fair use. Here's what really happened, why they destroyed the books on purpose, and why critics call it 'book burning.'

Jul 29, 2026