AI Companies Are Buying Tons of Old Books Because They're Free of AI Slop

AI公司大量购买旧书，因为它们不含AI生成的低质量内容

来源: 404media.co | 主题: Books | 评论: 53

时间: on Tuesday July 21, 2026 @04:10PM

An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: As AI companies search for more training data to improve their models, one company is offering old, printed books as an ideal source because they are guaranteed to be free of the very AI slop AI companies are producing. "The world's best AI training data is sitting on a shelf," ISBNdb, a company that produces what it claims is "the world's largest book database," and that offers high-volume book acquisition services for AI companies, says on its site . "Books represent curated, peer-reviewed, domain-specific human knowledge, structured in a way no web crawl can replicate. Dense, edited, authoritative." In one article on its site , ISBNdb explains that printed books published before 2022 are ideal for AI training data because they don't in

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