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37 m (121 ft): Size of the solid wing sails, made from the same material as wind turbines
6 weeks: Length of Pyxis Oceanâs journey from China to Brazil AI companies are too cheap to pay for books Big Tech has a habit of pinching pennies wherever people can be exploited, and now companies like Meta and OpenAI are using pirated books to train their artificial intelligence models. A new study published in the Atlantic revealed how tech companies use [books from shadow libraries](%2F%2Fqz.com%2Fshadow-libraries-are-at-the-heart-of-the-mounting-cop-1850621671%2F%3Futm_source=email%26utm_medium=Quartz_Daily_Brief_US%26utm_content=1850760907/1/0100018a1cb4bb3b-3587152e-edce-4d74-a4f0-3b246982f98d-000000/jkwQh5S0-N-9a641K5SY_L-SVJpxJCt3QdMwUa4z05s=314), paying nothing for the content that trains and powers their large language models. 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