{
  "id": 14930852,
  "title": "How books are being scanned and destroyed to train artificial intelligence",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/16/how-books-are-being-scanned-and-destroyed-to-train-artificial",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-10-16T09:31:56.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "France 24",
    "slug": "france-24",
    "url": "https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/focus/20261016-how-books-are-being-scanned-and-destroyed-to-train-artificial-intelligence"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "To train artificial intelligence models, millions of physical books are being digitised and destroyed. Our colleagues at France 2 investigate this controversial practice and the risk of seeing many rare second-hand books disappear forever.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}