Ask HN: How is AI destruction of books legal?

By Madmallard · 2026-09-17 · 1 points · 4 comments

I'm talking about Anthropic and other AI companies finding rare books, feeding their pages into the model training data, and then shredding the books afterward. They are destroying history actively. It reminds me of religious people claiming these people really are the four hors…

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