Actually Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · 17 days ago

AI companies are buying up and destroying tons of old books for training data

www.404media.co

AI companies are buying up and destroying tons of old books for training data

www.404media.co

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Actually Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · 17 days ago

AI Companies Are Buying Tons of Old Books Because They're Free of AI Slop

www.404media.co

ISBNdb, a company that sources printed books for AI companies to turn into training data, tells clients “the optics problem is real.”

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Why not gifting them instead

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