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Secondhand booksellers in the UK and Ireland are reporting a surge in mysterious bulk orders, with speculation that AI companies are purchasing the books for training data. The trend follows revelations that Anthropic spent millions acquiring books for data acquisition purposes. Booksellers suspect the books are being used to train AI systems and subsequently discarded.
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Development comes after Anthropic was found to have spent millions on books to scan for ‘data acquisition’ Secondhand booksellers in the UK and Ireland are reporting a flurry of bulk orders from mystery buyers, amid speculation AI companies are acquiring the tomes for their…
