Amazon joins the list of companies destroying rare books to feed to the AI machine
An AirTag hidden in a rare book followed its journey to a Las Vegas warehouse, where it was likely destroyed in an effort to supply fresh data to hungry LLMs. Amazon is destroying rare books to train AI | Image credit: jarmoluk at Pixabay I don't know if you've noticed, but everything is becoming increasingly AI-generated. Whether it's news, music, or social media, AI has seemingly stuck all of its nasty little fingers into any pie it can find. Experts have long warned that eventually we'd get to the point where AI was training itself on data that AI had created, and we're pretty sure that point is behind us. And that's not actually particularly useful, it turns out. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums
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An AirTag hidden in a rare book followed its journey to a Las Vegas warehouse, where it was likely destroyed in an effort to supply fresh data to hungry LLMs. Amazon is destroying rare books to train AI | Image credit: jarmoluk at Pixabay I don't know if you've noticed, but everything is becoming increasingly AI-generated. Whether it's news, music, or social media, AI has seemingly stuck all of its nasty little fingers into any pie it can find. Experts have long warned that eventually we'd get to the point where AI was training itself on data that AI had created, and we're pretty sure that point is behind us. And that's not actually particularly useful, it turns out. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums
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An AirTag hidden in a rare book followed its journey to a Las Vegas warehouse, where it was likely destroyed in an effort to supply fresh data to hungry LLMs.
Amazon is destroying rare books to train AI | Image credit: jarmoluk at Pixabay I don't know if you've noticed, but everything is becoming increasingly AI-generated.
Whether it's news, music, or social media, AI has seemingly stuck all of its nasty little fingers into any pie it can find.
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