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StaleJul 27, 26, 11:08 PM UTCJan 1, 30, 12:00 AM UTC
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One professional bookseller who specializes in selling foreign language books on these marketplaces told me that, starting in April, he and other booksellers noticed a historic spike in sales.
- This bookseller asked to remain anonymous so he can continue to do business on these platforms.
- “I personally have mixed feelings about all of this,” the bookseller, who suspects he’s sold hundreds of books to AI companies for training data, told me. “It benefits me financially as well as by clearing out old inventory that is otherwise unlikely to sell.
- I’ve been well-suited for these sales with inventory from overseas and foreign language books.
- On the other hand, I don’t like the end-use, and I don’t like that uncommon books are being pulped.”
- This bookseller said his inventory is full of rare, foreign language, and low circulation books, meaning that if they are destroyed in the process of becoming training data, they’ll be even harder to obtain.
