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Amazon is aggressively sourcing rare pre-2022 texts to prevent model collapse by diversifying training data beyond internet-scraped content and existing corpora. This shift highlights a critical pivot in the industry toward physical archives as essential, non-AI-generated sources for maintaining large language model quality and diversity. The practice underscores growing tensions between corporate data hunger and cultural preservation efforts regarding unique historical literature.
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Amazon, which started off selling books, is destroying rare texts to train AI
TechCrunch1 min read

Rare books are incredibly valuable for training LLMs, since these models have already trained on whatever's available online.
Amazon is buying tons of rare books, cutting off their spines, and scanning them for AI training, according…
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