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AI Companies Are Buying Tons of Old Books Because They're Free of AI Slop (www.404media.co)
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[–] antonim@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Google (and/or the libraries that collaborate with Google Books) and Archive.org usually scan non-destructively. Some of Google's book scans still show the fingers holding the corners of the pages, some of them were taken mistakenly mid-flip, etc. So they clearly used whole, normally bound books.