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AI giants are under fire for allegedly buying rare books, scanning them to train their models, and then destroying the originals—possibly erasing irreplaceable pieces of our literary heritage. Public interest groups are demanding the FTC investigate this “hoard and destroy” tactic, warning it could monopolize AI development and shut out competition. A 2025 court ruling cleared Anthropic of copyright violations in a similar case, but new evidence suggests Amazon is doing the same. The stakes? Access to our written history—and who controls the future of AI.

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