‘More than just objects’: Australian booksellers raise alarm over ‘horrific’ destruction of rare titles to feed AI

A few DTs ago I was discussing a similar story where I made the point that the booksellers quoted couldn’t confirm if any actually rare or valuable books were being pulped for the AI machine. Well, now we know which cultural treasures have been lost.

* 1970s manual on soil mechanics
* Born to Thunder: Champions of New Zealand Cycling (2010)
* Early Australian Poetry (1982)… sold for $9, on the shelf for 20 years
* Local history Melbourne suburb of Hawthorn