AI companies are chomping books, millions of books sacrificed to the ravening maws of the AI machines. And weirdly, I’m okay with it, but I’m going to start by making it sound hideous because that’s more fun. VGT3 is a discreet Amazon operation  that has been buying huge quantities of books and destroying them. The books are loaded into industrial slicers to cut off the bindings and spines; the pages are fed to high speed scanners; then the paper is pulped. See the cute picture above, the T Rex chomping into a book? It’s the VGT3 logo, painted on the outside of a giant Amazon building in…