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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days ago

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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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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Nobody complained when Google did this over a decade ago 🤷

Yes they did?! That was a big controversy back in the day. You are engaging in historical revisionism right now.

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