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Multiple readings We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility Building & implementation · 3 attributable reactions
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Amazon acquires rare books AI training

We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility

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Why this matches Policy & governance reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · James Grimmelmann
“"We’re not revealing the titles of the books included in the shipment we tracked, but they are rare, meaning there are not many copies of them in circulation." I'm highly curious what the books are. I think it matters a lot, both legally and morally. www.40…” evidence ↗
13 experts 4 communities 1 sources clustered
404 Media Joseph Cox Luke Stark Jason Koebler Andrew Selbst James Grimmelmann Emanuel Maiberg Damon Beres +5
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“We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books. www.404media.co/we-tracked-a...”

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“"We’re not revealing the titles of the books included in the shipment we tracked, but they are rare, meaning there are not many copies of them in circulation." I'm highly curious what the books are. I think it matters a lot, both legally and morally. www.40…”

4 experts discussed this · 10 posts
Emanuel Maiberg: We put a tracking device in a shipment of rare books acquired by an anonymous buyer. It ended up at an Amazon facility where the company scans books for training data and destroys them in the proce…
Luke Stark: We put a tracking device in a shipment of rare books acquired by an anonymous buyer. It ended up at an Amazon facility where the company scans books for training data and destroys them in the proce…
Nafnlaus 🇮🇸 🇺🇦: Yeah, the industry itself destroys *immense* volumes of books that don't sell.
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3 experts · 4 posts · 18d ago
Kate Klonick Andrew Selbst Jeffrey Vagle
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“To me this is a big part of what bothers me re the “we can’t stop AI use so why have a policy against it” crowd. You can’t stop cheating, so the solution is to redefine things so it’s not cheating?…” evidence ↗
Jeffrey Vagle: The way things are going with AI, it's probably a smart move for ambitious students to work on their penmanship.
Andrew Selbst: To me this is a big part of what bothers me re the “we can’t stop AI use so why have a policy against it” crowd. You can’t stop cheating, so the solution is to redefine things so it’s not cheating?…
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2 experts · 6 posts · 14d ago
Andrew Selbst Jeffrey Vagle
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“Currently writing a section of my book on the AI industry's full-court press on educational institutions, and my anger is starting to affect my usual throughput.” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Policy & governance · 1
Jeffrey Vagle: Currently writing a section of my book on the AI industry's full-court press on educational institutions, and my anger is starting to affect my usual throughput.
Jeffrey Vagle: I'm not sure who makes me angrier: The AI* companies or the institutional administrators who have fully bought into the sweaty AI* sales pitch.
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