Tracking the rare books that Amazon is feeding to AI.
404 Media put a tracker inside a shipment of rare books, which arrived at an Amazon warehouse in Las Vegas: > Amazon employees who work at this location say all they do is receive massive shipments of printed books which they then cut the bindings off in order to scan the books more quickly. The printed book is destroyed in the process. Last month, 404 Media reported that AI companies are buying used books in bulk to use them as AI training data.
404 Media put a tracker inside a shipment of rare books, which arrived at an Amazon warehouse in Las Vegas: > Amazon employees who work at this location say all they do is receive massive shipments of printed books which they then cut the bindings off in order to scan the books more quickly. The printed book is destroyed in the process. Last month, 404 Media reported that AI companies are buying used books in bulk to use them as AI training data.
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