The Original Sin of Anthropic’s Claude

The model collapse scenario threatens to wipe out whatever gains chatbots like Claude enjoyed from being trained on books in ...

‘Wicker’ Has the Internet Thirsting: These BookTok-Favorites Will Hold You Over Until Its Theatrical Release

While you wait for Alexander Skarsgård’s wicker husband to hit theaters, meet the mythical, magical, and occasionally smutty ...

Blake Crouch: ‘I Write the Way I Like to Read’

Lots of white space on a page. Short paragraphs that move.” This month Apple TV airs Season 2 of a series based on his 2016 ...
Complex

The 8 Best Coffee Table Books Available on Complex

Style The 8 Best Coffee Table Books Available on Complex From Basquiat and Virgil Abloh to Jay-Z, Michael Jordan, and The Ten, these are the art, fashion, music, and sports books that deserve a ...
TechSpot

AI firms are quietly buying and destroying millions of printed books to train their models

What we know so far: A market built for libraries and booksellers is now feeding AI training, as companies seek large volumes of printed books that predate the generative AI boom. ISBNdb, which says ...
Yahoo

AI companies are anonymously buying and destroying millions of books through middleman services to avoid he...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. And, it seems, the AI companies know it. New reporting from 404 Media suggests that, in an effort to shield themselves from the PR ...