Openculture iconOpencultureAug 28, 2026

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

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.

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.

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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.

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