AI Companies Are Pulping Our Humanity

The recent revelation about Anthropic’s systematic digitization and destruction of out-of-print books portends a rapacious future, one where soulless LLMs swell while the shelves starve.

AI Companies Are Pulping Our Humanity
Unknown North Netherlandish artist, "Roundel with Allegorical Scene of Book Burning" (c. 1520–30), colorless glass, vitreous paint, and silver stain (image public domain CC0 via the Metropolitan Museum of Art)