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The modern book burners: The tech giants buying thousands of second-hand books - so they can tear off their spines, scan...

When Compass Books in Dartmouth, Devon, received an order earlier this summer for second-hand volumes on these subjects and many more, seller Lucy Hingston was delighted.

The 1930 poetry book that Anthropic tried to censor

Intellectual Things by Stanley Kunitz

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Google Faces Class Action Over Books Used To Train Gemini

Publishers allege works supplied to Google Books, Play Books and Scholar were used to train Gemini without permission. No court has ruled on the claims. The post Google Faces Class...

Free Books- Part 342

Amazon has a tremendous number of FREE ebooks on their website.  You can find thousands of free kindle books on Amazon’s site every day.  These books can be downloaded to a Kindle...

Publishers sue Google over Gemini AI training

Hachette, Cengage, Elsevier, and the author Scott Turow have filed a Google Gemini lawsuit in New York, claiming the company copied millions of books and journal articles to train...

Book Publishers Sue Google Over AI Training

Book Publishers Sue Google Over AI Training

Amazon buying rare books in bulk for training

Suspecting that an anonymous order of 1,000 books was headed to an AI…Tags: 404 Media, Amazon, tracking, training

Book Database Shutters AI Service Following Outrage Over Destroyed Rare Texts

ISBNdb says their controversial books-to-AI pipeline landing page was ‘a test of market interest’ after disgust of a program straight out of Fahrenheit 451

Book publishers sue Google for copyright infringement over Gemini AI training

Group of major publishers accuses the tech giant of ‘one of the most prolific infringements of copyrighted materials in history’A group of major publishers have filed a lawsuit aga...

Booksellers suspect AI firms are buying and then destroying rare books

AI firms quietly bulk buying rare books face resistance from booksellers.

Googlebooks are finally getting their big reveal on September 15

Google's launch spree will continue into September, when it is expected to officially unveil its first Googlebook laptops.

Amazon joins other tech giants in gobbling up books to train AI, report finds

Amazon is reportedly buying massive quantities of rare books, scanning their pages to train its AI models and destroying the tomes in the process.

AI boom sparks rush to buy and scan old books

In an otherwise quiet summer season when news is sparse, the literary world erupted with concerns about what was happening to used books, even some single-edition rare ones. The st...

New book — “Anti-Jewish Greek Texts in Late Medieval Crete: The Case of Manouel Savios and Angelos Gregorios,” by Elefth...

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Free Books- Part 341

Amazon has a tremendous number of FREE ebooks on their website.  You can find thousands of free kindle books on Amazon’s site every day.  These books can be downloaded to a Kindle...

Gutting Old Books to Feed AI: What Could Go Wrong?

The question is: Who wins? Maybe we should start buying up all the old books before the bots get to them. Source

Free Books- Part 344

Amazon has a tremendous number of FREE ebooks on their website.  You can find thousands of free kindle books on Amazon’s site every day.  These books can be downloaded to a Kindle...

Alte Bücher als KI-Futter: Der Pontifex gegen Silicon Valley

KI-Konzerne kaufen in großem Stil antiquarische Bücher, um die Inhalte scannen zu lassen. Gegen diese Instrumentalisierung von Wissen interveniert jetzt der Papst. mehr...

Free Books- Part 343

Amazon has a tremendous number of FREE ebooks on their website.  You can find thousands of free kindle books on Amazon’s site every day.  These books can be downloaded to a Kindle...

Here’s how Googlebooks will stop random files from clogging your desktop

Googlebooks will auto-sort your files into "collections" based on topic, event, or task.

AI companies are buying up old books to escape their own AI slop

AI companies are facing a data problem of their own making: the open web is clogged with AI-generated text, and training new models on that sludge invites "model collapse," where m...

“Architectural Masterpieces in the World” by PIE BOOKS

Sorry, this entry is only available in Japanese. For the sake of viewer convenience, the content is shown belo […]

Google、「Gemini Notebook」に購入済み電子書籍を追加できる「Expert Intelligence」

Googleは、信頼できる情報源をAI製品で活用する取り組み「Expert Intelligence」を発表した。第1弾として「Google Playブックス」の対象電子書籍を「Gemini Notebook」のソースに追加可能にした...