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2026-07-31
fortune.com
artificial-intelligence
This Dutch bookseller thought a request for 3,000 copies was ‘spam or phishing.’ Instead, AI companies are scanning and destroying books to train AI
Dutch antiquarian bookseller Pieter de Vries received an email from a company called 2077AI requesting 3,001 books, which he dismissed as spam or phishing, but later learned it was linked to AI traini…