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Amazon, which started off selling books, is destroying rare texts to train AI - TechCrunch

Published by TechCrunch By Amanda Silberling · 17 August 2026 at 19:38
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Amazon, which started off selling books, is destroying rare texts to train AI - TechCrunch
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Rare books are incredibly valuable for training LLMs, since these models have already trained on whatever's available online.

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