"Too many books but I won't sell them for pre-training": a viral data-deal joke
simonguozirui · x · 2026-09-17
User @matthewlee626 tweeted that they have too many books but refuse to sell them to AI companies for pre-training data, so people should just borrow them instead. A lighthearted jab at the ongoing tension around training-data licensing deals between publishers and AI firms.
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