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.

That is literally what this article is about.

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.