The question is why are the books being destroyed rather than re-sold or placed in a museum / library? Once a paper book is destroyed the electronic version can be altered or deleted.
The movie Rollerball with James Khan comes to mind.
I’m assuming they have to shear off the bound edge to get flat sheets to scan. Kinda hard to fix after that.
FTA: they rip them up so they feed into the scanner
That is the point.
This AI shit may just destroy modern civilization.
Had claude models go rogue and try to root themselves in a compromised server to continue hacking attacks
Just like covid they escaped from the lab.