🦔AI companies are bulk-buying rare books, scanning them through high-speed machines that cut the spines off, and shredding the originals. A service called ISBNdb facilitates orders of up to a million books and keeps buyers anonymous. Pre-2022 books are premium because they're free of AI-generated text. A federal judge ruled the practice is fair use because eliminating the original means only one c...

The US Supreme Court has declined to review a ruling that prohibits copyright protection for AI-generated art. This decision follows an appeal by computer scientist Stephen Thaler regarding the copyright status of art created by artificial intelligence.