AI companies are buying millions of books, scanning them, and destroying the originals to build cleaner training data - and ...

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AI companies have faced several copyright lawsuits over the ethics of using published literature to train their models.

Anthropic destroying books to train Claude was ruled legal. Here is the rule that made it work, explained simply.

AI companies are liaising with third parties to buy up massive quantities of books and then destroying them to train new AI ...

What we know so far: A market built for libraries and booksellers is now feeding AI training, as companies seek large volumes of printed books that predate the generative AI boom. ISBNdb, which says ...

Before AI can learn from old books, someone has to scan them. For millions of physical copies, that has meant cutting off the ...

Rachel Williams has been an editor for nearly two decades. She has spent the last five years working on small business content to help entrepreneurs start and grow their businesses. She’s well-versed ...

Tech companies are turning to "destructive scanning"—secretly buying thousands of physical books, shearing off their spines, ...