🎭 Culture Aug 28, 2026 · Colin Marshall

Why AI Companies Are Buying—And Then Destroying—Old Books

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Why AI Companies Are Buying—And Then Destroying—Old Books
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We’ve long joked about delaying bedtime in order to read the entire internet, but the prospect of actually doing so doesn’t sound as appealing as it used to. An ever-growing proportion of text online, we may sense, hasn’t been written by humans, but generated by artificial intelligence. One solution is to return to reading on paper, and beyond that, spending our time only with books published before the advent — and thus uncorrupted by the output — of large language models. Ironically, that’s wh

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