AI Companies Accused of Destroying Historic Books and Rewriting Human History
August 2, 2026
Produced and edited by Alexis Williams, a disturbing report exposes how AI companies are purchasing rare physical books in bulk—facilitated up to 1 million books at a time for anonymous buyers—and shredding them after scanning.
AI firms destroy books during scanning to legally argue “transformative use” and bypass copyright enforcement on obscure texts.
With the internet heavily polluted by AI-generated text, pre-2022 physical books have become uniquely valuable as “structurally clean training data”.
Surviving histories, local languages, and unique perspectives that exist nowhere else are being permanently wiped out.
A handful of tech companies are quietly deciding what human knowledge survives and what gets erased.
As AI-generated content rapidly expands across the internet, original human works—especially rare physical books—may become more valuable than ever.
History cannot be rewritten if it’s preserved. Knowledge cannot be replaced once it’s destroyed.
Protect our books. Protect our history. Protect it at all costs.
Source: @nowthisimpact
#AITraining #BookDestruction #TechMonopoly #ArtificialIntelligence #fyp
English Script:
N/A
