Big AI Tech and Books: The Dumpster Full of Disassembled Books Is Now a Cultural Icon
August 4, 2026
[Editor’s Note: Ms. Grace has an advanced degree in information science. That means she is a qualified special librarian among her other professional accomplishments.]
AI may be the champion destroyer of books. That’s quite an achievement.
XCancel is a Substack maintained a cute hedgehog avatar named Hedgie. He shared some news about what AI companies are doing to old and rare books.
Chop ‘em up. Scan ‘em. Dump the trash.
AI companies are buying books in bulking scanning them. Books that were published before 2022 are fodder for AI. It is fair use to trash cultural artefacts. A judge ruled that it is fair use to scan them. Anthropic even hired the former person in charge of Google Books to buy as many books as possible.
What does Hedgie the Hedgehog think about this?
“This got to me. A bookseller told 404 Media that rare books with almost no surviving copies are being fed into this pipeline. Books that survived wars, fires, and centuries of handling are being shredded so an AI can learn to write a better marketing email. ISBNdb’s website literally says "’AI company destroys two million books’ is not a headline that generates sympathy," and they still built an entire business around making it happen quietly. They offer NDAs as a feature. They coach clients to call it "digital preservation.””
Do the big AI tech companies (what my dear leader calls BAITs) think much about what might be called a crime against humanity?
Probably not.
I know. It’s too hard for the BAIT bros to think about something that cannot be monetized unless run through their knowledge garbage disposal.
Hedgie, can you organize other book lovers to speak out about this grinding down of a cultural knowledge base?
Whitney Grace, August 4, 2026
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