Tag: copyright

AI Training Data: The Great Pillage of the Internet

The generative AI boom did not begin with a blank page. It was built on decades of human work: articles, photographs, videos, software code, forum discussions, product reviews, personal stories and countless other fragments of digital culture. Together, that material became AI training data. Most of it was not created for machine learning. Developers answered […]

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When Amazon Deleted 1984 From Kindles

In 2009, Amazon delivered one of the most brutally ironic tech moments of the digital age: it remotely deleted copies of George Orwell’s 1984 from customers’ Kindle devices. Not a parody. Not a Black Mirror pitch. The book famous for state-controlled truth, disappearing records, and the “memory hole” was itself vanished from people’s e-readers. The […]

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AI’s Book Hunger Is Turning Forgotten Shelves Into Training Data

Old books were supposed to be the sleepy corner of the internet economy. Dusty essays, regional histories, wine manuals, conference proceedings, civil war diaries — the kind of titles that sit for years in second-hand bookshops waiting for one very specific buyer. Now, according to reports from taz, elDiario and Swiss broadcaster RTS, those forgotten […]

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