Today, some books are taking a very different route. They are bought in bulk, scanned into machine-readable text and, in some cases, destroyed, leaving behind digital files that can be used to train artificial intelligence systems.

LinkedIn has introduced a new reporting option allowing users to flag low-quality AI-generated content in their feed, and has simultaneously removed its own AI post-writing tool, replacing it with a proofreading feature that corrects without replacing the user's voice.