Taylor Lorenz(@TaylorLorenz):You can’t buy rare books in palettes and it’s not the “people running AI” who are the reason the books are being destroyed, it’s copyright law. If you love books (I do) then fight to reform our copyright system!!

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Taylor Lorenz@TaylorLorenz

2026.07.30 23:33

You can’t buy rare books in palettes and it’s not the “people running AI” who are the reason the books are being destroyed, it’s copyright law. If you love books (I do) then fight to reform our copyright system!!

𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉@OrevaZSN

2026.07.30 14:00

AI is not buying rare books in bulk, slicing off their spines, feeding their pages through scanners, or throwing them in the trash. AI does not have hands. The PEOPLE running AI companies are doing this. They’re buying these books and ordering them destroyed.