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

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BeauHD @ Slashdot 3 place · today 16:10 EDT

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

An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: 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 site. "Boo

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