Amazon, which started off selling books, is destroying rare texts to train AI | TechCrunch
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Rare books are incredibly valuable for training LLMs, since these models have already trained on whatever's available online.
    • deliriousdreams@fedia.io
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      4 hours ago

      Yeah but they aren’t a printer or a publisher in their own right. They’re a distributor and that’s a lot of the problem.

      They would need a legal agreement to do that and that would cost money and time and possibly make them liable for using the data to train AI so they aren’t going to do that.

      For the downvoters: Amazon doesn’t have a physical publishing arm. We aren’t talking about ebooks here.