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AI companies are buying millions of physical books, rare, out-of-print, and used books then cutting the spines, scanning the pages, and destroying the originals to feed clean human text into their Large Language Models.
As the internet fills with AI-generated content and risks “model collapse,” firms like Anthropic have spent millions acquiring books, ripping them apart, and discarding the paper after creating one internal digital copy.
Court records confirm it.
Companies such as ISBNdb have openly offered bulk sourcing of up to a million titles per order under NDAs for exactly this purpose.
This isn’t just digitization, it’s the permanent loss of physical records of human knowledge.
In this video Dan Dicks of Press For Truth explains why when combined with the end of print encyclopedias and elected officials reading unedited ChatGPT stage directions into official records, the line between dystopian fiction and reality is disappearing fast.
So please buy the books.
Read them.
Preserve them.
Support independent bookstores.
Digitize nondestructively.
And stop pasting AI output into our institutions!
The machines are hungry.
The shelves are being emptied.
Once the physical pages are gone, the only story left may be the one the algorithm decides to tell.
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AI companies are buying millions of physical books, rare, out-of-print, and used books then cutting the spines, scanning the pages, and destroying the originals to feed clean human text into their Large Language Models.
As the internet fills with AI-generated content and risks “model collapse,” firms like Anthropic have spent millions acquiring books, ripping them apart, and discarding the paper after creating one internal digital copy.
Court records confirm it.
Companies such as ISBNdb have openly offered bulk sourcing of up to a million titles per order under NDAs for exactly this purpose.
This isn’t just digitization, it’s the permanent loss of physical records of human knowledge.
In this video Dan Dicks of Press For Truth explains why when combined with the end of print encyclopedias and elected officials reading unedited ChatGPT stage directions into official records, the line between dystopian fiction and reality is disappearing fast.
So please buy the books.
Read them.
Preserve them.
Support independent bookstores.
Digitize nondestructively.
And stop pasting AI output into our institutions!
The machines are hungry.
The shelves are being emptied.
Once the physical pages are gone, the only story left may be the one the algorithm decides to tell.
Please share this video FAR AND WIDE!!
To get your money out of the dollar and into gold and silver visit:
For all your detoxing, health and supplement needs visit:
If you would like to support this kind of journalism please consider making a contribution here:
Buy Me A Coffee ➜
Other Ways To DONATE ➜
SUBSCRIBESTAR ➜
PATREON ➜
If you’re old fashioned like we are and prefer to keep it old school, we also accept cash, cheques (made out to Dan Dicks), equipment and words of encouragement! You can send us those things here:
Dan Dicks P.O. Box 1521 Squamish BC V8B 0B1
SUBSCRIBE:
BITCHUTE ➜
ODYSEE ➜
BAYSTON➜
MINDS ➜
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Who are Press For Truth?Dan Dicks is an investigative journalist and an award winning documentary filmmaker. He is also the founder of an independent media outlet known as Press For Truth which produces videos and documentary films about issues that the mainstream media often fails to report on. Dan creates thought provoking videos and documentary films for his websites pressfortruth.ca and pressfortruth.tv.
What is Book Burning?Book burning is the ritual destruction by fire of books or other written materials, usually carried out in a public context. The burning of books represents an element of censorship and usually proceeds from a cultural, religious, or political opposition to the materials in question. In some cases, the destroyed works are irreplaceable and their burning constitutes a severe loss to cultural heritage. Examples include the burning of books and burying of scholars under China's Qin Dynasty (213-210 BCE), the burning of the Library of Alexandria (c. 49), and the obliteration of the Library of Baghdad (1258).
What is A.I?In computer science, artificial intelligence (AI), sometimes called machine intelligence, is intelligence demonstrated by machines. This is in contrast to the natural intelligence displayed by humans and other animals. Computer science defines AI research as the study of "intelligent agents": any device that perceives its environment and takes actions that maximize its chance of successfully achieving its goals. Colloquially, the term "artificial intelligence" is used to describe machines that mimic "cognitive" functions that humans associate with other human minds, such as "learning" and "problem solving".
