Beyond kneejerk revulsion, LLM companies’ rampage through old book collections has much broader implications for the health of our society’s collective memory. http://resourceinsights.blogspot.com/2026/08/ai-destroys-transgenerational-memory-by.html
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It is both illuminating, and deeply weird, that for OpenAI, Amazon, Google and their ilk, the value of these books as a source of uncorrupted information goes to zero as soon as they’ve ingested it.