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AI Companies Are Buying Tons of Old Books Because They're Free of AI Slop (www.404media.co)
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[–] 26 points 3 months ago (1 child)

They even hve an economical incentive to destroy the books, because by doing so, they will get the data and prevent the competition from getting it for them

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago

    The incentive is literally that it's cheaper to scan, that's all.

    But given they're only interested in books with ISBN's, I recon they're already scanned and available in digital forms. If they're newer than the 80s, they're most likely in a document file in a server related to the publisher.

    Honestly surprised they'd rather source physical books, than just request various publishers for a price for their combined works - Only reason I can think of, is the physical scan makes other scans like a mobile photo easier to recognise and respond correctly to

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