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Mass buying of Japanese used books linked to AI training overseas

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Used bookstores across Japan are reporting unusual large-scale orders from overseas buyers, with such purchases possibly linked to AI training overseas, raising concerns over book preservation as demand for training data grows.
Originally broadcast on "Bankisha!" on September 27, 2026.

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20 Comments

@rick-yo 23 hours ago

These books will be despined and scanned so will be destroyed as books.

@tronicgr 11 hours ago

They are desperate for pre-AI written text... anything new is poisoned with AI already 🤷‍♂️

@datadrills-hq 11 hours ago

Scanned and then destroyed. Those rare books are gone for good. As individuals to preserve history and protect the truth, buy physical books

@zamiyaFlow 12 hours ago

Hopefully they'll put a stop to this soon since these books are going to be scanned and destroyed by anthropic

@Stricken555 20 hours ago

END AI Training

@flashdiagh 19 hours ago

I was afraid this would happen. Digital archiving is one thing, but training AI... So unfortunate.

@Silizium8 8 hours ago

Biggest theft of knowledge in an unregulated environment of all time to make profits.

@jcrea 9 hours ago

Knowledge being stolen from its original sources, authors being robbed of their effort and research, so stupid people becomes more dependant on their cell phones for everything

@aronyro 12 hours ago

As a media seller myself but not from japan its so nice to see Japanese book sellers. I specialize in rarer books, so knowing the books would be destroyed and not used in communities is tough.

@Conrad-t2p 17 hours ago

Ban US

@KatyFlorestan 6 hours ago

There should be more laws regarding AI. We are not fast enough and we need to hurry.

@CopingContinuous 1 day ago

AI is evil

@tioleft 9 hours ago (edited)

Japan needs to notice more all the reasons why people that hate AI exist. For a country that always valued the heart and soul of human crafts, the way their population accepts AI breaks my heart, since I'm a long-date fan of everything that is made there.
Awesome video! Wake up Japan!

@michaeldwyer9656 23 hours ago

Sensible legal proposal.

@indonesiangirl99 23 hours ago

This is horrible

@ForelliBoy 19 minutes ago

Public libraries need to get the jump on this and start acquiring/scanning the books themselves

@leggysoft 1 hour ago

Common books don't matter but japan needs to be highly protective of precious rare ones.

@rbpx1809 8 hours ago

Please report and stop these orders... they are destroying the books.

@CornbreadShred 18 minutes ago (edited)

Remember when the book burnings and destruction of knowledge in historical/documented past...were considered crimes against humanity!?
...So behind the guise of a compounded/convoluted paywall scheme...that somehow changes the same actions?

@francoispignon6107 2 hours ago

A variation of Fahrenheit 451. "Monday we burn Miller. Tuesday Tolstoy. Wednesday Walt Whitman. Friday Faulkner. And Saturday and Sunday, Schopenhauer and Sartre. 'We burn them to ashes, and then we burn the ashes'! That's our official motto."
What would be the new official motto?