Amazon Scans Rare Books for AI Training
Amazon has been secretly scanning rare books and cutting off their spines as part of its efforts to train its artificial intelligence models.
The unusual practice was uncovered
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Amazon has confirmed that it purchases books through commercial channels to improve its products and services. However, the company's need for vast amounts of text data has led it to seek out alternative sources, such as rare and out-of-print books.
The use of these texts is crucial, as they provide a unique source of training data for Amazon's LLMs. This is particularly important, as the quality of an LLM's outputs can degrade if it is trained on too much AI-generated text.
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