Media News: Fox Leads Cable, Tech Challenges Kids Law, Amazon Scans Books for AI
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Media News: Fox Leads Cable, Tech Challenges Kids Law, Amazon Scans Books for AI
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In warehouses of companies like Amazon or Anthropic, we find machines that automate the destruction of "all the physical books of the world" and their digitization, to train AI. Companies in the artificial intelligence industry, including Amazon and Anthropic, hold warehouses in which we find machines that automate the destruction of physical books and their digitization for the purpose of training artificial intelligence models...
How companies scan, destroy and bypass books. What an antiquarian antiquarian thinks of this approach and how an institution like the National Library protects itself against data theft.
AI book scanning: Just what is a rare book?
One of the stories of the last few weeks has been that AI companies have been scanning books in very large numbers in order to train their models with content guaranteed to have been written before 2002, and thus AI free. Jenny List for Hackaday writes: In this case they’re destroying the books for two reasons. Firstly, as I remember from a previous employer in the publishing world, it’s much easier to digitise a stack of papers than it is a bou…
Are AI Companies Destroying Books to Train AI?
In one of those “I thought everyone knew that already” stories, this week the book world has been up in arms at revelations that the AI industry is training its large language models, where digital titles aren’t available, on physical books. Firms are buying copies of print books and then destroying them as they scan them into their computers. Some of the titles ending up subjected to this fate are exceedingly rare and have been out of print for…
Anonymous Amazon employees report on the company's secret warehouses. Numerous books are destroyed, scanned and then thrown away. Which goal Amazon is to pursue. read more on t3n.de
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