Some AI bro made a huge order (200+ €) of rare italian books at full price with the purpose of destroying them in order to train some model
In the beginning he was puzzled why some american would want to spend hundreds of dollars to import discontinued books on mostly religious topics (a real human would never buy this stuff, it’s ultraniche and expensive), then we connected the dots.
That addressed you leaked is quite a nice area and nearby a big name university. I personally think you are jumping the gun. You should search their name in the William and Mary directory.
Also a real human would never purchase older religious works? What nonsense is this opinion?
He got an hilarious idea: poison their “known good pre-LLM dataset” by swapping barcodes with modern slop clearly made by an LLM like this
How to cook chocolate strawberries with an air fryer: this recipe it’s lighter as they’re not fried in oil but glazed
I guess at least they got paid. I mean, it’s a book store.
Your friend should scan them and release the contents of all books online for free.
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“I love burning books nobody would read”
It looks like you accidentally misspelled “using” as “burning.”
You seem to have a deep misconception on what happens to books “used” for AI training: they are destroyed.
Can you explain what happens to them?
There’s been plenty of reporting on it, but here are some Wikipedia articles to start you off:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Panama
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_scanning#Destructive_scanning_methods
Feel free to test this method of “using” books at your local library to see how well it works out for you. Just be sure to do it with something worthless, like a JKR book.
I don’t think I could do that at the library. Wouldn’t I need to purchase the books first?
If it isn’t destroying them then you won’t need to.
