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If they have no value why are they being acquired and scanned?
by VanTheBrand 1mo ago
If they have no value why are they being acquired and scanned?
- merely-unlikely 1mo agoA flagship LLM today is trained on tens of trillions of tokens, the equivalent of hundreds of millions of 100k word books. No human has that kind of appetite. As an aside, the entire Google Books corpus is generally estimated at tens of millions of books.
- tempestn 1mo agoAny original text has value for the purpose of AI training. The argument is that they have no other value.
- brookst 1mo agoExactly. It’s the funniest thing. These books are only being bought by AI companies. It seems pretty clear they only have value to AI companies. Otherwise all these people bemoaning the loss of rare books would be… buying them. “How dare these companies buy rare and valuable books that nobody else values enough to buy” is a self-canceling argument.