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AI companies destroying rare and out-of-print books to train LLM models… this some cartoon-style villainy.
"Responsible physical sourcing is not book burning [...] It is the completion of a book’s lifecycle: from tree to knowledge to tree again."
The cynicism is breathtaking.
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AI Companies Are Buying Tons of Old Books Because They're Free of AI Slop
ISBNdb, a company that sources printed books for AI companies to turn into training data, tells clients “the optics problem is real.”
