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AI Daily for 28 July: AI Rare Book Shredding, AI Lobbying Surge, Apple AI Bubble, Claude Opus Outage
AI Daily for 28 July recaps 5 major AI Hacker News stories, moving through ai rare book shredding, ai lobbying surge, apple ai bubble, claude opus outage.
1. AI Rare Book Shredding
The next story is about accusations that AI companies are buying up older and sometimes genuinely scarce books, slicing off the spines for high-speed scanning, and destroying the originals, with critics arguing that legal training-data collection is turning into an irreversible loss of physical culture. Hacker News mostly agreed the practice is ugly, but the debate split between people who saw it as quiet vandalism…
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