https://theworldwatch.com/tags/ai-destroying-books/ Sat 15 Aug 2026 15:09:48 +0200 https://theworldwatch.com/videos/1618708/ai-is-destroying-books-little-by-little-have-you-read-1984-i-know-i-keep-asking-that/
<div>Bookstores are reporting very suspicious orders they believe are linked to AI</div> <div> </div> <div>One bookstore called Kenny’s Bookshop got an order 5,000 books, most of them very obscure and second hand</div> <div> </div> <div>Many book dealers are now flagging orders like this after Anthropic by Claude ran an internal project called project Panama</div> <div> </div> <div>Court documents from a copyright lawsuit revealed they bought millions of physical books in bulk, cut the spines off with industrial machines for high-speed scanning, digitized the pages for AI training data</div> <div> </div> <div>After they were done with the books they just threw them away</div> <div> </div> <div>So now when bookstores get orders like this, it’s very concerning</div> ]]> Sat 15 Aug 2026 14:24:37 +0200 https://theworldwatch.com/videos/1618708/ai-is-destroying-books-little-by-little-have-you-read-1984-i-know-i-keep-asking-that/