{"slug": "the-race-to-collect-every-book-ever-written", "title": "The race to collect every book ever written", "summary": "The FBI's seizure of Z-Library, a major illegal book-sharing site, has not ended its influence; instead, the pirate project has become central to the AI revolution, according to the Financial Times. The vast collection of digitized books is now being used to train large language models, fueling the development of generative AI systems.", "body_md": "# The race to collect every book ever written\n\nSource:\n\n[Financial Times Technology](https://www.ft.com/technology)When the FBI seized Z-Library, it looked like the end of illegal book sharing. Now, its pirate project is central to the AI revolution\n\nGet AI news in your inbox\n\nDaily digest of what matters in AI.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/the-race-to-collect-every-book-ever-written", "canonical_source": "https://www.machinebrief.com/news/the-race-to-collect-every-book-ever-written-zupz", "published_at": "2026-07-24 04:00:04+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-24 04:37:57.240619+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "large-language-models", "generative-ai", "ai-ethics", "ai-policy"], "entities": ["Z-Library", "FBI", "Financial Times"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/the-race-to-collect-every-book-ever-written", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/the-race-to-collect-every-book-ever-written.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/the-race-to-collect-every-book-ever-written.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/the-race-to-collect-every-book-ever-written.jsonld"}}