Published August 17, 2026 at 4:38 PM
TechCrunch
Aug 18, 2026, 6:00 AM
Amazon, which started off selling books, is destroying rare texts to train AI
Rare books are incredibly valuable for training LLMs, since these models have already trained on whatever's available online.
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