🦔AI 公司正在大量购买稀有书籍，通过高速机器扫描它们，这些机器会切开书脊，然后将原版书籍销毁。一项名为 ISBNdb 的服务促成了多达一百万本书的订单，并为买家保持匿名。2022 年之前的书籍是优质资源，因为它们不含 AI 生成的文本。一位联邦法官裁定这种做法属于合理使用，因为销毁原版意味着同一时间只存在一份副本。Anthropic 聘请了前 Google Books 合作伙伴负责人，以获取“世界上所有的书籍”。

我的看法这件事让我感到不安。一位书商告诉 404 Media，几乎没有幸存副本的稀有书籍正在被送入这条生产线。那些经历了战争、火灾和数百年翻阅而幸存的书籍，正在被销毁，只为了让 AI 学会写出更好的营销邮件。ISBNdb 的网站上直白地写道“‘AI 公司销毁两百万本书’不是一个能引发同情的标题”，而他们仍然围绕悄无声息地实现这件事建立了一整个商业模式。他们将保密协议作为一项功能提供。他们还指导客户将其称为“数字保存”。

我报道过 AI 公司抓取互联网内容、盗版图书馆以及窃取音乐。这件事更糟糕，因为它是不可逆的。你可以重新上传一个网站。你可以重印一本畅销书。但一旦有人为了训练数据而销毁了 18 世纪植物学文本的最后三本副本，你就无法替换它们。而且法官说这是合法的。所以这件事会加速。“我们销毁稀有书籍并提供保密协议，以免被人发现”在 2026 年是一个合法的商业模式。多么疯狂的时代线啊。

Hedgie🤗

🦔AI companies are bulk-buying rare books, scanning them through high-speed machines that cut the spines off, and shredding the originals. A service called ISBNdb facilitates orders of up to a million books and keeps buyers anonymous. Pre-2022 books are premium because they're free of AI-generated text. A federal judge ruled the practice is fair use because eliminating the original means only one copy exists at a time. Anthropic hired the former head of Google Books partnerships to obtain "all the books in the world."

My TakeThis got to me. A bookseller told 404 Media that rare books with almost no surviving copies are being fed into this pipeline. Books that survived wars, fires, and centuries of handling are being shredded so an AI can learn to write a better marketing email. ISBNdb's website literally says "'AI company destroys two million books' is not a headline that generates sympathy," and they still built an entire business around making it happen quietly. They offer NDAs as a feature. They coach clients to call it "digital preservation."

I've covered AI companies scraping the internet, torrenting libraries, and stealing music. This is worse because it's irreversible. You can re-upload a website. You can reprint a bestseller. You can't replace the last three copies of an 18th-century botanical text once someone shreds them for training data. And the judge said it's legal. So it's going to accelerate. "We shred rare books and offer NDAs so nobody finds out" is a legitimate business model in 2026. What a timeline.

Hedgie🤗

我已经要求 SpaceXAI 团队保存图书馆里的任何珍本书籍，并以费力但完整的方式扫描它们，而不是简单地切断书脊进行扫描。

I’ve asked the SpaceXAI team to preserve any rare books in a library and scan them the hard way vs just cutting off the spine and scanning