{"slug": "ai-companies-mass-shredding-rare-books-video", "title": "AI Companies Mass Shredding Rare Books [video]", "summary": "AI companies are mass shredding rare books to train their models, according to a video report. The practice involves destroying unique physical copies of books to digitize them for AI training data, raising concerns about cultural heritage loss.", "body_md": "About\nPress\nCopyright\nContact us\nCreators\nAdvertise\nDevelopers\nImpressum\nCancel Memberships\nTerms\nPrivacy\nPolicy & Safety\nHow YouTube works\nTest new features\n© 2026 Google LLC", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-companies-mass-shredding-rare-books-video", "canonical_source": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8c8pmp_OC2s", "published_at": "2026-07-31 11:45:33+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-31 11:52:13.851676+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-ethics", "ai-policy"], "entities": ["Google LLC"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-companies-mass-shredding-rare-books-video", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-companies-mass-shredding-rare-books-video.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-companies-mass-shredding-rare-books-video.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-companies-mass-shredding-rare-books-video.jsonld"}}