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Amazon, once an online bookseller, is destroying rare books to train AI models
Tech giants are consuming rare literary archives to sustain the insatiable data hunger of modern generative AI.
Rare books are incredibly valuable for training LLMs, since these models have already trained on whatever's available online.
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The systematic destruction of rare texts to fuel model training marks a controversial turning point in the commodification of human history for digital intelligence. This practice raises ethical alarms about the preservation of irreplaceable cultural heritage versus the relentless pursuit of larger training datasets.
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