How books are being scanned and destroyed to train artificial intelligence

France24 - Oct 16, 2026

To train artificial intelligence models, millions of physical books are being digitised and destroyed. Our colleagues at France 2 investigate this controversial practice and the risk of seeing many rare second-hand books disappear forever.

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