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Australian booksellers raise alarm over destruction of rare titles to feed AI
Secondhand booksellers believe they may have been caught up in the AI supply chain that sees old books scanned then destroyed…
4 History Books to Read for America 250
As a companion to the “Top Six Classic Books to Read for America 250,” consider these four history books recommended by evaluators from the “Heritage Guide to Historic Sites.” Some…
Generative AI floods and dilutes the market for books
Generative AI can produce book-length works of fiction at near-zero cost. These books are often dismissed as low-quality ``slop'' that buyers will ignore, and are assumed to carry …
Ive read hundreds of free Kindle books with Libby — heres how
Arthur was right — having fun isn't hard when you've got a library card.…
92 New Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror Books Releasing in August
Summer is still going full steam—and so are the new releases, so beat the heat with an escape to outer space, a fantasy land, or a supernatural world.…
Company Offering Printed Books to Train AI Stops After 404 Media Coverage
Citing backlash, ISBNdb removed its webpages about training AI, denied ever buying, scanning, or selling a book for AI training, and said the site was a "test of market interest."…
5 Books That Will Deepen Your Understanding of Large Language Models
Check out these five books on building, fine-tuning, and deploying large language models.…
AI Firms Are Buying Up Old Books, Then Scanning and Destroying Them
The world’s biggest AI companies are buying antiquarian books en masse so they can be scanned to train their large language models (LLMs) before being destroyed.…
AI companies are turning old books into training data, Fahrenheit 451-style
Before AI can learn from old books, someone has to scan them. For millions of physical copies, that has meant cutting off the spine.…
AI companies are scanning and destroying old books
AI companies are buying old books, scanning them and destroying the remains, writes Emanuel Maiberg at 404 Media. The program is enabled by ISBNdb, maintainers of a vast book datab…
AI firms are quietly buying and destroying millions of printed books to train their models
Its pitch is simple: older books offer cleaner data. "The world's best AI training data is sitting on a shelf," the company says on its website. "Books...…
The Vanishing Page: AI Firms Scan Then Destroy Rare Book Editions
AI companies are bulk-buying rare and out-of-print books, scanning them, then destroying the originals for training data.…
Revealed: The Authors Whose Pirated Books Are Powering Generative AI (2023)
Stephen King, Zadie Smith, and Michael Pollan are among thousands of writers whose copyrighted works are being used to train large language models.…
Is an AI company buying up all the used books? (I don't think so, not this time)
But no matter what, the Library of Alexandria is still burning.…
Graydon Carter shares his six favorite books
The Former Vanity Fair editor spends his days wrapped up in a good mystery or nonfiction book.…