AI companies are anonymously buying and destroying millions of books through middleman services to avoid headlines about AI companies buying and destroying millions of books

AI companies are anonymously buying millions of books through middleman services to train large language models, then destroying the books to avoid negative headlines, according to a report from PC Gamer. The practice involves purchasing entire print runs of copyrighted works without public attribution, raising ethical and legal concerns about data sourcing for AI training.

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