This reminds me of part of the plot of Vernor Vinge's Rainbows End (2006). www.theamericanvandal.com/p/guillotini...
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Guillotining Books Is Not Quite Guillotining Humanities Scholars. Not Quite.
Booksellers are benefitting from AI developers destructively scanning print books, but the activity is not victimless.