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alightsoul 19 hours ago

There's just a few copies in a single library worldwide which is probably a national or a university library

tptacek 19 hours ago | parent [-]

The 404 story suggested that these are largely vanity press books and instruction manuals for things no longer sold. Implying that these books were almost certainly headed for the recycling center had the AI companies not snatched them up.

alightsoul 19 hours ago | parent [-]

They are useful as a source of non synthetic data, replacing synthetic data consisting of rephrasings of common topics I assume?