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Amazon, once an online bookseller, is destroying rare books to train AI models

TechCrunch August 17, 2026 · 4:38 pm Read Original
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Amazon, once an online bookseller, is destroying rare books to train AI models

Rare books are incredibly valuable for training LLMs, since these models have already trained on whatever's available online.

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Published Aug 17, 2026 · 4:38 pm
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