IN AN EFFORT TO FORESTALL MODEL COLLAPSE GAI techbros are scanning and shredding rare books to feed to their GAI-LLMs the necessary non-GAI information required for them to avoid model collapse, due to ingesting AI-adjacent data. www.yahoo.com/news/science...

AI Companies Are Still Buying Up Old Books by the Pallet – Then Shredding ThemAI companies are bulk-buying used books, scanning them, then destroying the originals to build clean training datasets - and a court ruling made it legal.www.yahoo.com