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

Bruh, this is literally like scientists scavenging metal from shipwrecks that predate the era of nuclear bomb testing, cause they need steel that isn’t contaminated by nuclear fallout for certain measuring equipment 😵‍💫😵‍💫

Great analogy for the shit we’re currently saturating our digital world with

Tell me more about nuclear steel.

It’s actually the low radiation stuff from before the first nuclear bombs were detonated that we want. Turns out those kinds of bombs spread fallout and now literally everything on the planet has a trace amount