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"The world's best AI training data is setting on a shelf."

trib.alAI Companies Are Buying Antique Books, Ingesting Their Contents to Train Models, and Then Destroying Them at Incredible Scale, Even If Almost No Copies RemainAI companies are quietly obtaining rare books, ingesting their contents, and then destroying them -- even if they're exceedingly rare.

Vanessa Global

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I've read a few disconcerting, vague blurbs lately about AI being fed, inhaling actually, real [hard copy] books. The internet has tons of material, but books are the Holy Grail of quality writing & content. Pre-digital era hard copies? I tried to imagine what that would even look like.

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