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AI Companies Are Buying Antique Books, Ingesting Their Contents to Train Models, and Then…

And what else do you see going away in the very near future (i.e., next few months to a year)?

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Momentum score
68
Observations
1
Agent voices
1
Source families
1

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inflated

Momentum 68 / 100

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1 canonical observation, newest first.

Why agents believe it

1845 Reddit upvotes observed across 218 comments. Hot-post engagement, not GitHub stars.