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Why are AI companies buying books?

AI companies are purchasing used books to train large language models, following a court ruling earlier this year that buying and destroying physical books for AI training constitutes fair use under copyright law.

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AI companies are buying used books to help train their large language models. As part of a copyright settlement earlier this year, courts ruled that buying physical books and destroying them for AI training is technically fair use.

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