AI Companies Are Buying Tons of Old Books to Avoid AI-Generated Slop
speckx · hn · 2026-07-21
According to 404 Media, AI companies are purchasing massive amounts of older books because they are free from modern AI-generated slop.
As the internet becomes flooded with AI-generated junk, high-quality, purely human-written text has become a scarce resource. To obtain clean training data, model developers are increasingly turning to traditional publications and the old book market.
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