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

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

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silence7@slrpnk.net to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days ago

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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I mean even when you go to Goodwill, it’s not like 99% of the books are rare or irreplaceable. How many copies of Patterson books does the world need to begin with?

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