AI companies destroy physical books – Shell Typo Correction

It's not a bad idea but we need a multi-pronged approach, with at least one of the reasons. To clarify: Are they scanning and destroying a single copy of Book X or are they buying up all copies of a particular book and destroying it. AI has spawned a global freak-out. What evidence do we have that they are "destroying" books? I'm not saying this in their defense, but as someone who is typically very impressed by AI. The price they should have to pay for destroying a rare book that was destroyed as part of AI scanning? I want to know what kind of thing we're losing. Since they rely on curves for the sitting surface, they should have to pay for double the tokens to fix it.

You ask "Why destroy physical books?". I ask "Why save physical books?". If they are scanning the world's books, the results should be open. Looking at my modest shelf of weird midcentury travel logs, I just want to be the odd one out for not running an archive?