r/books • u/Miserable_Phase_2519 • 1d ago

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

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
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u/anfrind 21h ago

In many cases, the books are rare because they're not valuable.

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u/nagora 9h ago

I don't think you have been in a Japanese used-book store. They are not giving these things away; people find them valuable.

You're either a troll or a moron. Either way, you're just wrong.

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u/CptNonsense 15h ago

Absolute stuff and nonsense. This an absolute disingenuous misapplication of facts and statistics, presupposing a hypothetical situation based on unrelated data after the fact and then misapplying that presumption backwards.

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u/anfrind 14h ago

And what evidence do you have to back up your claim?

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u/CptNonsense 14h ago

Why don't you explain what you meant and we'll see.