AI companies are reportedly shredding millions of books after using them to train AI models — tech giants outsource to middlemen to secretly buy up books for training material

tomshardware.com 2026-07-28 Zhiye Liu

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Recent reporting by 404 Media reveals that several artificial intelligence (AI) companies are secretly purchasing millions of secondhand books through intermediaries to source high-quality training da... Read original →

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