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The Federal Trade Commission in the USA is urged to AI companies for allegedly buying rare books in bulk and then them. Groups like the Consumer Federation of America have the FTC to into claims that AI companies are the books to train their large language models (LLMs). The process breaking the spines of the rare works, scanning the pages, and then destroying them. Some destroyed books may be among the last surviving copies of the original texts. Critics that such books are historically important and that it is not socially acceptable to them. One critic said: "The rarer a book is, the more carefully we should it."

The bulk buying of books is a dilemma for stores that in rare and antique books. They are large orders for some rather valuable items, but are then the ethics of destroying books. The Wall Street Journal reported that rare and obscure book sales have suddenly . Booksellers have been unusually large orders for out-of-print, and sometimes valuable books. It added that some books are apparently being not to be read, but to be digitized for AI training. Earlier this year, the Washington Post that the companies are a fortune on millions of books that are being to help train AI assistants.