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Amazon is buying printed books through commercial marketplaces, cutting off their bindings, scanning the pages for AI training data, and destroying the physical copies, according to an August 17th inv…

AI companies are bulk-buying physical books, having them industrially scanned, and then shredding the originals, according to a Futurism investigation. The practice, brokered by data firm ISBNdb under…

AI companies are buying physical books printed before 2022 from data broker ISBNdb to train large language models on human-authored text free of AI-generated slop, according to a 404 Media report. ISB…