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David GerardMA to TechTakesEnglish · 7 days ago

AI vendors are destroying rare books to feed the chatbot

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AI vendors are destroying rare books to feed the chatbot

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David GerardMA to TechTakesEnglish · 7 days ago
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Every AI vendor trains their chatbots on the Common Crawl, a copy of the whole public internet. But that’s just the starting point. AI vendors are desperate for more data — in the hope of making th…

Strip-mining the world of old books

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MC3SwofuMt0&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260723-ai-vendors-destroying-rare-books-to-feed-the-chatbot - podcast

time: 8 min 42 sec

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    LWer: what if the LLM book-shredders would do the exact thing they’d get sued to death for if they didn’t shred the books? Then maybe people wouldn’t be so mad at them for shredding books!

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