AI Firms Are Buying Old Books for Slop-Free Training Data

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Retirees are among those using AI to churn out up to 10 biographies a week. These generate some scathing reviews, but to economists at least, even slop has value.

AI companies are buying up old books to escape their own AI slop

AI companies are facing a data problem of their own making: the open web is clogged with AI-generated text, and training new models on that sludge invites "model collapse," where machines degrade by eating their own output. One company is filling the need for human-written content by buying old printed books in bulk. — Read the rest The post AI companies are buying up old books to escape their own AI slop appeared first on Boing Boing.

AI firms are buying old books for slop-free training data

The pitch from data broker ISBNdb is blunt: the world’s best AI training data is sitting on a shelf. The catch is that getting at it means slicing the spine off millions of books, then never admitting which lab paid for the job. AI has a pollution problem of its own making. So much of […] This story continues at The Next Web

AI Companies Are Buying Tons of Old Books Because They're Free of AI Slop

As AI companies search for more training data to improve their models, one company is offering old, printed books as an ideal source because they are guaranteed to be free of the very AI slop AI companies are producing. “The world's best AI training data is sitting on a shelf,” ISBNdb, a company that produces what it claims is “the world’s largest book database,” and that offers high-volume book acquisition services for AI companies, says on its…