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We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility
By Emanuel Maiberg ·
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Summary
Amazon is buying massive quantities of books, scanning them for AI training data, and destroying them in the process. A 404 Media investigation was able to reveal Amazon’s book buying operation, which hasn’t been previously reported, by placing a tracking device in a rare book…