AI Companies Are Buying and Destroying Millions of Physical Books to Train Their Models - GO Magazine
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The practice is known as "destructive scanning."
  • ieatpwns@lemmy.world
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    10 days ago

    This might be worse than the library of Alexandria at least after it being burned down no one tried to sell the knowledge that used to be available for free… that we know of

  • Brem@lemmy.world
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    10 days ago

    …,… So this article is basically saying that AI is the equivalent to the fires of which made The Nile run black with ink from the burning of The Library (anex) of Alexandria???

    …and It’s also being trained to believe that Taylor Swift is good music!?

    Uh oh.

  • Zier@fedia.io
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    10 days ago

    So basically they are training AI on romance novels, since there is nothing more abundant than those.