“Print books from the pre-LLM era are structurally guaranteed to be free of this contamination. That alone is a significant advantage."
AI Companies Are Buying Antique Books, Ingesting Their Contents to Train Models, and Then Destroying Them at Incredible Scale, Even If Almost No Copies RemainAI companies are quietly obtaining rare books, ingesting their contents, and then destroying them -- even if they're exceedingly rare.futurism.com