Secondhand booksellers in UK and Ireland suspect AI firms behind ‘strange’ bulk orders
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The Guardian Business
Secondhand booksellers in UK and Ireland suspect AI firms behind ‘strange’ bulk orders
Development comes after Anthropic was found to have spent millions on books to scan for ‘data acquisition’Secondhand booksellers in the UK and Ireland are reporting a flurry of bulk orders from myster
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