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Technology@lemmy.mlEnglish · 2 days ago

AI Companies Are Buying Antique Books, Ingesting Their Contents to Train Models, and Then Destroying Them at Incredible Scale, Even If Almost No Copies Remain

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AI Companies Are Buying Antique Books, Ingesting Their Contents to Train Models, and Then Destroying Them at Incredible Scale, Even If Almost No Copies Remain

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Technology@lemmy.mlEnglish · 2 days ago

AI companies are quietly obtaining rare books, ingesting their contents, and then destroying them -- even if they're exceedingly rare.

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Honestly - just uploading to archive.org or their spinoff of Google Books would be acceptable. At least the stuff out of copyright.

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