Amazon destroys second-hand books to feed the AI Leviathan

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*A Symbol for Decadent Capitalism//*

*/Amazon destroys second-hand books to feed the AI Leviathan/*

/By Michael Pröbsting, Revolutionary Communist International Tendency 
(RCIT), 26 August 2026/

A series of reports has been published in the last weeks which reveal 
that Amazon is systematically purchasing huge quantities of used books 
from second-hand bookshops, stripping their bindings, and digitizing the 
pages to feed its Artificial Intelligence (AI) models before destroying 
the physical copies. This process takes place in numerous countries 
around the world as bookshops in the US, Australia and Europe confirm to 
have received unusual orders from mystery buyers.

Read more at 
https://www.thecommunists.net/worldwide/global/amazon-destroys-second-hand-books-to-feed-the-ai-leviathan/



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