Tag: Rare books destruction

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Andrew McDiarmid
Date
August 2, 2026

Categorized
Arts & Culture, Business and Finance, Large Language Models (LLMs)

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Ben Mann, ISBNdb, Project Panama, Rare books destruction}

It’s Time to Buy Old Books Before AI Destroys Them

_{This book destruction scheme is the brain child of technicians, people who lead tech companies and tech labs who are wholly committed to a technological view of the world} _{Andrew McDiarmid
August 2, 2026

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Arts & Culture, Business and Finance, Large Language Models (LLMs)}

Before AI companies buy up all remaining physical copies of older, rare, out-of-print, obscure, or nearly forgotten books, we can buy our own copies.