Booksellers fear their rarest books are being pulped to feed AI. The trail leads to a ‘recycler’.
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Training data is becoming a physical supply chain with real-world externalities — from rare books to recycling channels. If your models depend on scraped or purchased corpora, provenance and licensing aren’t just legal questions now, they’re reputational and regulatory surface area.
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