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Amazon, once an online bookseller, is destroying rare books to train AI models
Rare books are incredibly valuable for training LLMs, since these models have already trained on whatever's available online.
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Amazon has been purchasing large quantities of rare books, removing their spines and scanning the contents for use in training its AI models, according to a report by 404 Media that tracked a rare book to Amazon’s Las Vegas facility known as VGT3. The facility is marked by a dinosaur clutching a book.
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