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The new documents in copyright cases against AI companies show the lengths to which tech firms such as Anthropic, Meta, Google and OpenAI went to obtain colossal troves of data with which to “train” their software, including by buying, scanning and disposing of millions of books.

washingtonpost.comInside one company’s secret plan to ‘destructively scan every book in the world’Court filings reveal how AI companies raced to obtain more books to feed chatbots, including by buying, scanning and disposing of millions of titles.

27/1/26, 2:00 pm28 reposts38 likes

Nick Byrd, Ph.D.

@byrdnick.com

6 Feb

Lots of people destructively scan their #books to digitize their library or to get a discounted (or otherwise non-existent) digital version from the many used copies that sell for pennies. #Libraries let lenders use their stack cutters and scanners. It's not the way to scan a rare book, of course.

ddhurley.bsky.social

@ddhurley.bsky.social

27 Jan

People don't get it...the number of books published has cratered since the rise of the internet...if Anthropic, Meta, Google and OpenAI want to buy books, let them...somebody has to...if they 'dispose' them...not a big loss...again because not that many still read books...but will read Googles↓

ddhurley.bsky.social

@ddhurley.bsky.social

27 Jan

(AI's) version of a book...which is about 1 paragraph per keyword.