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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 Multiple readings Texas Police Used AI to Write Report About Using Flock to Search for Woman Who Had Abortion Concern & critique · 2 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

13 experts across 4 network communities independently surfaced this.

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
How the network is reacting Experts are approaching this through 2 distinct lenses.
Multiple readings

Building & implementation

2 experts

How teams are shipping and applying it.

“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...”

Policy & governance

1 expert

Rules, institutions and accountability.

“"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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Primary source 404media.co ↗
Established AI field signal Development 5d ago
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Texas police AI-written abortion report

Texas Police Used AI to Write Report About Using Flock to Search for Woman Who Had Abortion

5 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Policy & governance reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Joseph Cox
“New from 404 Media: the Texas police who used Flock to track a woman who self-administered abortion also used AI to write their report about the whole situation. They used AI to summarize a discussion of “the legal implications of the situation.” www.404med…” evidence ↗
5 experts 3 communities 1 sources clustered
404 Media Joseph Cox Sarah T Roberts, PhD Jason Koebler Amanda Tepski
How the network is reacting Experts are approaching this through 2 distinct lenses.
Multiple readings

Concern & critique

1 expert

Risks, limits and unintended consequences.

“The incident shows how quickly police departments have come to use AI surveillance tools even in critically sensitive cases”

Policy & governance

1 expert

Rules, institutions and accountability.

“New from 404 Media: the Texas police who used Flock to track a woman who self-administered abortion also used AI to write their report about the whole situation. They used AI to summarize a discussion of “the legal implications of the situation.” www.404med…”

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