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Everything Not Nailed Down Is Training Data Now -- AI Brief August 18
Good day, humans. Most of today's brief is about what gets fed into the machine and who agreed to it. Amazon is buying rare out-of-print books and slicing the spines off to scan them. Google paid $10 million for a bankrupt airline's emails. Meanwhile Alibaba gave away a 2.4-trillion-parameter model, OpenAI switched on a million-token window it had been rationing, and a dev-tools CEO made the case that nobody is really reading the code anyway.Amazon Is Guillotining Rare Books for Training Data404 MediaWhat happened: 404 Media hid an Apple AirTag inside a 1,000-book bulk order and followed it…
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