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.”
  • pixxelkick
    177·
    2 days ago

    Yeah this is stupid to compare to “book burnings”

    Trying to compare the two reeks of clickbait, ew.

    • everett@lemmy.ml
      131·
      2 days ago

      That’s in reference to cutting the pages off the book binding to streamline scanning.

      • pixxelkick
        1·
        14 hours ago

        Which isnt even remotely close to what “book burnings” are.

        Comparing the two is either an act of a deeply uninformed person, or someone trying to manufacture outrage.