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AI Companies Are Buying Tons of Old Books Because They're Free of AI Slop (and destroying them after) – 404media paywall removed 😎

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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.”

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To me this seems like a desperation quick money scheme which is equally unfortunate in a different way.

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