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十多个公共利益和消费者维权组织敦促美国联邦贸易委员会调查头部人工智能开发商，指控它们为训练大型语言模型而购买、扫描并销毁书籍，这些组织将这一做法描述为“破坏性”且反竞争的。
在周五致联邦贸易委员会主席安德鲁·弗格森和委员马克·米多尔的信件中，进步需求教育基金、美国消费者联合会和地方自力更生研究所等组织表示，AI企业正批量购买书籍，将内容数字化以训练其AI应用，随后销毁实体副本。信件指出，在某些情况下，被销毁的书籍是现存仅存的原版作品副本之一。
这些组织辩称，批评人士所称的这种“囤积并销毁”做法可能会让公众和其他AI企业更难获取必要的源材料。他们还指控，销毁书籍可能违反《联邦贸易委员会法案》第5条中关于禁止商业中不公平或欺骗性行为的条款，构成不公平竞争手段。
信件中写道：“通过大规模永久销毁书籍，从而将这些不可再生资源排除在更广泛的获取范围之外，AI企业正在打造这样一个未来：只有最富有的在位企业才能构建高质量的AI模型，并成为人类书面作品的唯一持有者——而它们正是通过销毁原版作品来实现这一点的。”
这些组织要求联邦贸易委员会查清这一做法的规模，以及被销毁书籍中有多少是相关作品仅存的副本。
这些组织援引了2024年8月作家安德里亚·巴尔茨等人针对AI开发商Anthropic提起的版权诉讼，该诉讼指控Anthropic收购、扫描并销毁了数百万册印刷书籍。2025年，一名法官裁定Anthropic使用合法购买的书籍训练其AI模型Claude不违反版权法。
Anthropic未立即回应置评请求。
数字出版商404 Media本周进行的另一项调查显示，亚马逊正批量购买书籍，扫描内容以训练其AI工具，随后将书籍销毁。亚马逊未立即回应针对该报道的置评请求。
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AI companies accused of hoarding and destroying millions of books
August 21, 2026 / 3:12 PM EDT / CBS News
By Megan Cerullo Reporter, MoneyWatch
Megan Cerullo is a New York-based reporter for CBS MoneyWatch covering small business, workplace, health care, consumer spending and personal finance topics. She regularly appears on CBS News 24/7 to discuss her reporting.
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More than a dozen public interest and consumer advocacy groups are urging the Federal Trade Commission to investigate leading artificial intelligence developers for allegedly buying, scanning and destroying books used to train their large language models, a practice the organizations described as “destructive” and anticompetitive.
In a letter to FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson and Commissioner Mark Meador on Friday, the Demand Progress Education Fund, Consumer Federation of America and Institute for Local Self-Reliance, among other groups, said the AI companies are buying books in bulk, digitizing the content to train their AI apps and then destroying the physical copies. In some cases, the destroyed books are among the last surviving copies of original works, according to the letter.
Such “hoard-and-destroy” practices, as critics call them, could make it harder for the public and for other AI companies to access essential source material, the groups argue. Destroying books could also constitute an unfair method of competition under Section 5 of the FTC Act, which bars unfair or deceptive acts or practices in commerce, they allege.
“Through their practice of permanently destroying books en masse and thus removing those nonrenewable resources from broader access, AI companies are engineering a future where only the wealthiest incumbents can build high-quality AI models and operate as the sole holders of humanity’s written works — after having destroyed the originals to get there,” the letter states.
The groups are asking the FTC to determine the scale of the practice and how many of the destroyed books are the last remaining copies of the underlying works.
The groups cite an August 2024 copyright lawsuit brought by writer Andrea Bartz and others against AI developer Anthropic, which they accused of acquiring, scanning and discarding millions of print books. In 2025, a judge ruled that Anthropic’s use of legally purchased books to train its AI model, Claude, did not violate copyright law.
Anthropic did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
A separate investigation by digital publisher 404 Media this week reported that Amazon is buying books in bulk, scanning them to train its AI tools and then destroying them. Amazon did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the report.
Edited by Alain Sherter
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