#vgt3 — Public Fediverse posts

KI frisst echte Bücher!

#AMAZON kauft weltweit massenhaft antiquarische Bücher mit #ISBN -Nummern. Diese werden über mehrere Stationen zur Abteilung / Projekt #VGT3 nach Las Vegas gebracht.
Die Bücher werden zerschnitten, gescannt und dann geshreddert.
#404media hat einen Peilsender in eine Antiquariats-Großbestellung gelegt und die Sendung bis zu Amazon verfolgt.

Zweck: #AI #KI Training mit KI-unverseuchten Texten.

Der ganze Artikel:
https://www.blogspan.net/amazon-buecher-ki-training-vgt3/
https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000335984/heimliches-ki-training-amazon-zerstoert-massenhaft-alte-buecher

kinda chic to order books from your local bookstore instead of Amazon who is now destroying books in their #VGT3 division, see the hashtag.

also kinda chic to pay cash when buying local, to give local businesses an extra 2-3% instead of credit card companies, at no additional charge to you.

#books #orderBooks #bookstore #localBookstore #Amazon #payCash #cash #localBusiness #localBusinesses #kindaChic
#Blaugust #Blaugust2026

Hidden #Airtag reveals #Amazon is trashing rare #books to train #AI

For the past year or so, booksellers have suspected that AI firms are buying up huge lots of rare books, then destroying them after scanning them to train AI. But this was hard to prove until now, as 404 Media reports that an Airtag hidden in a rare book shows that at least one tech giant, in the race to advance its frontier models, is behind some of the bulk orders: Amazon.

On Monday, 404 Media revealed that it had connected with a #bookseller who agreed to plant an Airtag in a rare book that was part of a bulk order. That Airtag was then tracked to an Amazon AI #training facility in #LasVegas that housed a team focused on tearing books from their spines and scanning pages, 404 Media reported. Apparently tone-deaf to the escalating backlash over destructive book scanning, a logo on the door of that team’s warehouse, #VGT3 , showed a Tyrannosaurus rex preparing to devour a book,
#rarebooks

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/08/hidden-airtag-reveals-amazon-is-trashing-rare-books-to-train-ai/

This is just not right, despicable really. Those books aren't disposable. Amazon's destroying them for profit with zero regard for what's actually being lost.
#AI #Amazon #LAS8 #VGT3

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:vcepp6trx4vpe5ourxso4tjl/post/3mtbsegvcjc2b