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AI Companies Are Shredding Rare Books — And That Changes Everything About Training Data

The AI Prism Admin

AI companies are buying rare books, scanning them for training data, and shredding the physical copies. Here's why this is happening, the legal loophole making it possible, and what it means for the future of knowledge.

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Synthetic Data: How AI is Learning to Train Itself Without Humans

Sarah Mitchell

Here is a dirty secret the AI industry didn’t want you to know until recently: we officially ran out of ...