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tptacektoday at 4:05 AM1 replyview on HN

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.


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alightsoultoday at 4:36 AM

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