Fuck AI@lemmy.world · 3 months ago

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

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

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Fuck AI@lemmy.world · 3 months ago

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

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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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Not sure if this is worse or better than them just pirating them

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