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Japanese used bookstores see 5x sales surge as books are being bought by the ton

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/japanese-used-bookstores-see-5x-sales-surge-as-books-are-being-bought-by-the-ton-one-50-ton-order-sent-to-the-us-for-ai-scanning-and-destruction-multitude-of-suspicious-bulk-buys-thought-to-end-up-in-foreign-ai-scan-and-shred-facilities
19•speckx•53m ago

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swingandamiss•17m ago
Time for the daily article on HN about Japan. The obsession with Japan on HN is very weird.
duchanjo•16m ago
Could this be for AI training data?
ErneX•8m ago
It’s on the headline if you visit the link.
panny•16m ago
A dark age will come. AI shredders destroy all the books then hallucinate what they once contained.
t1234s•10m ago
The value in these AI companies will be more in their proprietary training data than the models.
RobotToaster•2m ago
The sad part is, imagine how positive this could be if the scans were made available to the public.