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RockBottom@feddit.org to Fuck AI@lemmy.world · 11 days ago

AI Companies Are Buying Tons of Old Books Because They're Free of AI Slop (a.k.a. modern, legalized book burning)

www.404media.co

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AI Companies Are Buying Tons of Old Books Because They're Free of AI Slop (a.k.a. modern, legalized book burning)

www.404media.co

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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.”

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/49718467

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    Yeah this is stupid to compare to “book burnings”

    Trying to compare the two reeks of clickbait, ew.

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

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        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.

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