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書店に「3000冊の発注」、AI企業が古書を買いあさる? Anthropicも数百万冊をスキャン・破棄 実態明らかに

Reports revealed the reality of AI training data collection, including mass purchases of old books by Chinese AI firms and Anthropic discarding scanned books.

Key points

  • •A Dutch antiquarian bookstore received an order for 3,000 books from a Chinese AI company, suspected to be for training data.
  • •Anthropic has also discarded millions of books after scanning them, raising questions about its data collection methods.
  • •The reports revealed how physical books are handled behind the scenes to secure training data for AI models.
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