AISimon Willisonabout 2 hours ago
Amazon Tracks Rare Books to AI Training Facility
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Amazon is buying massive quantities of books, scanning them for AI training data, and destroying them in the process. A tracking device placed in a rare book led to an Amazon warehouse in Las Vegas, Nevada, where employees cut bindings off books to scan them faster.
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