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> Buying millions of ebooks online would take a lot of effort I don't understand. Facebook and Google spend billions on training LLMs. Buying 1M ebooks at $50
by nh2 2y ago
> Buying millions of ebooks online would take a lot of effort
I don't understand.
Facebook and Google spend billions on training LLMs. Buying 1M ebooks at $50 each would only cost $50M.
They also have >100k engineers. If they shard the ebook buying across their workforce, everyone has to buy 10 ebooks, which will be done in 10 minutes.
- shakna 2y agoGoogle also operates a book store, like Amazon. Both could process a one-off to pay their authors, and then draw from their own backend.