TechIntent not malicious, it's indifference: Thousands, if not millions, of books sent to AI woodchipper

An investigation finds that rare books are being acquired en masse, dismantled and scanned for AI training data. Emanuel Maiberg, an investigative journalist and co-founder of 404 Media, describes a globalised, deliberately opaque supply chain in which books bought through anonymous marketplaces can end up at large-scale scanning facilities.