AI Book Burning? Companies Are Destroying Millions of Books to Feed Chatbots
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Companies are secretly purchasing millions of physical books, disassembling them, and scanning each page into AI training datasets, discarding the originals. This practice, known as "book burning," fuels the development of chatbots and AI models. The scale of this operation is massive, with millions of books being destroyed annually, highlighting the growing demand for AI training data.
AI developers are quietly buying physical books by the millions, slicing them apart, scanning every page into AI training datasets, and discarding the originals.