TechSecondhand book sales are booming. Is AI behind it?

Independent booksellers have reported mysterious bulk orders sending large numbers of books to distant warehouses. The purchases are suspected of supporting AI training, with books potentially being dismantled for industrial scanning and then pulped. Court documents from the Anthropic case referred to the effort as “Project Panama.”

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