The Great Book Heist: How AI's Appetite for Data is Chewing Up Secondhand Stores The UK and Ireland's secondhand book trade has been thrown into chaos by a series of mysterious bulk orders that have left owners bewildered.
Stuart Manley, co owner of Barter Books in Alnwick, Northumberland, describes the purchases as "a strange combination of books... all over the place. " But what's driving this trend?
Theories abound, but one thing is certain: secondhand bookstores are bearing the brunt of AI's insatiable hunger for data.