This is really dishonest framing, unless you really, honestly can't tell a difference between pulping a mass market paperback romance novel that there's 3 million of in circulation, and shredding an 18th century botanical text that there's only 2 copies of in existence.

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dwedge 2 hours ago | parent [-]

You call of dishonest framing, but you're begging the question twice.

Once that AI companies are really shredding 200 year old rare books, and once that libraries are only weeding mass market pulp fiction.

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malfist 2 hours ago | parent [-]

That is literally what this article is about.

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streetfighter64 an hour ago | parent [-]

The "article" in question is a tweet. The "rare botanical text" is just an example the author of the tweet made up in order to generate sympathy.

	▲	malfist an hour ago \| parent [-]
		The tweet is about a 404 Media article about the practice. It's linked elsewhere here.