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AI companies are reportedly shredding millions of books after using them to train AI models — tech giants outsource to middlemen to secretly buy up books for training material

tomshardware.com · 14d

AI companies are reportedly shredding millions of books after using them to train AI models — tech giants outsource to middlemen to secretly buy up books for training material

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New report reveals that AI companies are buying up physical books to train their LLMs and destroying them in the process.

First report: AI Companies Are Buying Antique Books, Ingesting Their Contents to Train Models, and Then Destroying Them at Incredible Scale futurism.com, 17d

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