Here’s a Balm if the Idea of Destroying Books to Train AI Breaks Your Heart
Booksellers say the order lacked normal price haggling, a sign they fear could point to AI firms buying titles to scan or destroy.
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And more importantly, how much need to be alarmed?
IA companies are buying, digitizing and destroying millions of old books. Knowledge on the internet was running out. The model is insatiable.
AI companies are purchasing large quantities of used books worldwide and digitizing them in a disruptive manner to improve the training quality of language models. In this process, the books are scanned and discarded, which is analyzed as a strategic data collection activity aimed at securing high-quality original text that is differentiated from internet resources.
This wouldn’t be the first time we’ve heard of artificial intelligence (AI) training that borders on copyright infringement. We’ve written before about AI tool makers who buy books, cut out the covers, scan them, and then throw them away after training the AI. Independent European bookstores have received orders for thousands of books in recent weeks that look suspiciously […]
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