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Japanese used bookstores boom as bulk buyers ship books abroad for AI scanning

Original: Japanese used bookstores see 5x sales surge as books are being bought by the ton

Used bookstores in Japan are reporting a fivefold surge in sales as bulk buyers purchase books by the ton. One single order of 50 tons was sent to the United States, where the books are believed to be scanned for AI training data and then destroyed. Numerous suspicious bulk purchases are thought to end up in similar foreign scan-and-shred facilities.

Why now: Bulk purchases are suspected to be driven by demand for AI training data, a topic of intense current interest.

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