AI firms are buying up old books because they are the last slop-free data left

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The pitch from data broker ISBNdb is blunt: the world’s best AI training data is sitting on a shelf. The catch is that getting at it means slicing the spine off millions of books, then never admitting which lab paid for the job. AI has a pollution problem of its own making. So much of […]This story continues at The Next Web