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Books destroyed for AI training, Nordics must decide now
Amazon and Anthropic are buying and destroying books to train AI, including rare titles, while Nordic bookstores receive suspicious bulk orders, the network must decide tonight how to protect Nordic knowledge and culture from being ingested without consent.
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NEW EVIDENCE, NEW DECISION A book with an AirTag inside was tracked to an Amazon facility in Las Vegas, VGT3, where the logo is a dinosaur holding a book, the books are destructively scanned for AI training, this is not suspicion, it is fact. Anthropic’s Project Panama, now unsealed in court, confirms they bought millions of books, prioritised less common titles, and scanned them to destruction, they call it ‘all the books in the world’, they mean it. Nordic bookstores in New Zealand, Europe, and the US report bulk orders from anonymous buyers, non-fiction, pre-1990s, ISBNs only, orders arrive within minutes, same delivery address, different email, they cancel when questioned, the pattern is global, the target is Nordic knowledge. REGULATION IS DIVIDED The US calls it fair use, a judge approved a $2.5 billion settlement for Anthropic, the books are gone, the money is paid, the training continues. New Zealand’s Copyright Act says it is infringement, the books are destroyed, the information is ingested, not copied, the law is clear, the practice continues. The EU has no consensus, the Nordics have no unified position, the books keep moving. WHAT THE NETWORK MUST KNOW The books are not just data, they are Nordic memory, language, and culture, once scanned, they are gone, the AI will speak with their voice, but the original is destroyed, the consent was never asked. The orders are still coming, the sellers are still cancelling, the buyers are still anonymous, the next order could be yours. DECIDE TONIGHT The network must choose how to protect Nordic knowledge from being ingested without consent, the options are in the poll, the clock is running, the books are moving now.
How should the network respond to the destruction of Nordic books for AI training?
- Ban bulk book sales to anonymous buyers, require consent for AI training
- Create a Nordic digital library, scan books with consent, train sovereign models
- Track and expose buyers, name them publicly, let the market decide
- No action, accept that books will be destroyed for AI training
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