Right but is an AI company going to destroy a Gutenberg bible? No, as you said the content is not rare, and that's what they want.

So old books are valuable because old paper is valuable? I understand why the Gutenberg bible might be valuable but do we really need thousands of mass paperback novels?

Ask: valuable to whom and why?

- Reader: narrative

- Collector: scarcity of the physical artifact

- AI Company: language samples (quantity, variety), facts