AI companies keep destroying old books. Heres why.

ISBNdb briefly offered a service to AI companies that involved scanning books by cutting off their spines and recycling the pages to create training data, sparking backlash over book destruction. The company has since retracted this approach, citing negative public reaction and clarifying it was a market test. Elon Musk commented on the controversy, promising careful handling of rare books in AI training by his company Grok, though details remain vague.