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AI burns books? Tech giants are buying, shredding books to train smarter chatbots

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Major technology companies have been engaging in a secret project to purchase millions of books and subsequently destroy them. The physical destruction of these literary works is being carried out to supply text data for training advanced artificial intelligence models.

The initiative highlights the aggressive measures being taken by tech giants to acquire training material for smarter chatbots. By buying and shredding these books, developers are securing proprietary or diverse text sources needed to enhance the capabilities and comprehension of their AI systems.

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Read the full story at the source Jerusalem Post (Jerusalem, Israel) · IL
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