AI firms are buying old books to secure cleaner training data
marigo · x · 2026-07-23
AI companies are reportedly buying old books to secure clean training data, avoiding the noise and duplication common in modern web corpora. The post points to a growing premium on higher-quality, less contaminated text sources as training data gets harder to find.
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