{"slug": "ai-companies-are-buying-up-old-books-to-escape-their-own-ai-slop", "title": "AI companies are buying up old books to escape their own AI slop", "summary": "AI companies are buying old printed books in bulk to source human-written training data, as the open web becomes saturated with AI-generated text that risks causing 'model collapse' when used to train new models.", "body_md": "AI companies are facing a data problem of their own making: the open web is clogged with AI-generated text, and training new models on that sludge invites \"model collapse,\" where machines degrade by eating their own output. One company is filling the need for human-written content by buying old printed books in bulk. — [Read the rest ](https://boingboing.net/2026/07/22/ai-companies-buying-old-books.html)\n\nThe post [AI companies are buying up old books to escape their own AI slop](https://boingboing.net/2026/07/22/ai-companies-buying-old-books.html) appeared first on [Boing Boing](https://boingboing.net).", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-companies-are-buying-up-old-books-to-escape-their-own-ai-slop", "canonical_source": "https://boingboing.net/2026/07/22/ai-companies-buying-old-books.html", "published_at": "2026-07-22 16:18:26+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-22 17:28:19.254024+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-research", "ai-products"], "entities": ["Boing Boing"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-companies-are-buying-up-old-books-to-escape-their-own-ai-slop", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-companies-are-buying-up-old-books-to-escape-their-own-ai-slop.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-companies-are-buying-up-old-books-to-escape-their-own-ai-slop.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-companies-are-buying-up-old-books-to-escape-their-own-ai-slop.jsonld"}}