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The practice of acquiring data to train AI models, from web scraping and licensing deals to buying books, archives and defunct companies' records.
Anthropic's settlement list includes at least 22 books by 15 Korean authors, three by Han Kang, among 482,460 eligible works. The count is koreajoongangdaily.com's, and at $3,000 a work the 22 come to $66,000 if every one is claimed.
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Arizona distributor asked South Korean booksellers for used Korean-language books by the pallet or container, JoongAng Daily reported. The report does not name an AI company as the end customer, so the suspicion rests on how the buyer buys.
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Google's $10 million bid for the bankrupt airline's data estate covers 500 million Teams records and 175,000 employee files. The flight attendants' union says the employee half was never anyone's to sell.
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Originality.ai flagged 1,272 of 2,034 books. The audit's soft spots and Amazon's honour-system disclosure point the same way: nobody is verifying who wrote what.
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A bankruptcy judge delayed Google's $10 million purchase of Spirit Airlines' internal data after flight attendants argued de-identification preserves everything that made the records sensitive.
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Opaque buyers are paying full price for thousands of unrelated titles in the UK, Ireland, the US and Australia. One delivery postcode points to freight warehouses near Heathrow.
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