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Re:AI companies are shredding rare books by sosodev on Monday July 27, 2026 @12:16PM (#49071752)
If you only care about facts, maybe. Even then I'm sure there are countless facts not described outside of old books.

I have a hard time believing that text valuable to humans would not be valuable to AI.

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Re:AI companies are shredding rare books by dgellow on Monday July 27, 2026 @12:31PM (#49072015)
Agreed, in addition LLMs are trained on a lot of useless data, such as the whole Reddit dataset which has to be at least 90% Reddit garbage, and that doesn’t seem to be a problem. I don’t see why ai labs wouldn’t want to also train on older data
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