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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 Building & implementation reaction 2 attributable expert contributions · 404 Media, Emanuel Maiberg
“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...” evidence ↗
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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…”

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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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