GPUs, RAM, water, land, now books. If this does not stop there will be nothing left.

If AI gets poisoned by eating its own shit, whose to say the same thing won't happen to us?

Exposure to AI generated or assisted material should be avoided at all cost. I believe it will induce madness in the general population.

Pre-AI literature offers one of the few zones of safety from the degradation. The AI industry wants total monopoly on information sourcing, and as such pre-AI books are a direct threat to their business model. The expensive high-grade models might be able to regurgitate the information reasonably well, and meanwhile the low-grade models will poison the publically available information pool to make access to high-grade information gate-kept behind a paywall. The end result is qualitatively worse in all aspects, but it may be the only perceived option these companies have to make a return on investment, by making the alternative to not paying for their expensive services worse and force the population into the choice of pay up or die.