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AI Companies Are Buying Antique Books, Ingesting Their Contents to Train Models, and Then Destroying Them at Incredible Scale
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AI companies like Anthropic are buying large quantities of physical books, scanning their contents to train language models, and then destroying the books. This practice leverages the first-sale doctrine and is considered transformative fair use by courts. Book sellers like ISBNdb are capitalizing on this demand by facilitating bulk purchases of pre-2022 print books, which are free from AI-generated content contamination.
