TechCrunch · Startups · 2026-08-17
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. Amazon, once an online bookseller, is destroying rare books to train AI models
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