Source code is the training data AI giants actually crave; everything else is worthless

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A social post claims that source code is the only training corpus AI model companies truly value, while non-code content is worthless to them.

So source code is the training data AI giants actually crave; everything else is worthless to them.
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So source code is the only corpus AI model companies really want; everything else is worthless to them.

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