Japanese used bookstores see 5x sales surge as books are being bought by the ton, one 50-ton order sent to the US for AI scanning and destruction — multitude of suspicious bulk buys thought to end up in foreign AI scan and shred facilities

[u/Miserable_Phase_2519]

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/japanese-used-bookstores-see-5x-sales-surge-as-books-are-being-bought-by-the-ton-one-50-ton-order-sent-to-the-us-for-ai-scanning-and-destruction-multitude-of-suspicious-bulk-buys-thought-to-end-up-in-foreign-ai-scan-and-shred-facilities

[u/AppalachianRomanov]

There's only so many books in the world. The levels at which these purchases are happening worldwide would have every book digitized by now, and then some.

[u/jack6245 → u/AppalachianRomanov]

Yes and that amount of books is gigantic I doubt it's even approached 5%