HARVARD AND GOOGLE TO RELEASE 1 MILLION PUBLIC-DOMAIN BOOKS AS AI TRAINING DATASET

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Harvard University plans to release a dataset that includes around one million public-domain books that are no longer copyright-protected due to their age. The dataset's release is aimed at leveling the playing field in the AI industry, allowing research labs and AI startups to access a huge dataset to train large language models. It is unclear when or how the dataset will be released.