AI firms are purchasing and dismantling vintage books to train models

According to a report by 404 Media, AI developers such as Anthropic are acquiring large quantities of inexpensive, older printed books to use for training their artificial intelligence systems. Anthropic has utilized specialized equipment to carefully detach pages and process them through high-end scanners, favoring these pre-2022 materials because they contain no AI-generated content. There are concerns that this process could lead to the destruction of rare or out-of-print titles.

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