Amazon is buying large quantities of printed books, scanning them for AI training data, and destroying the books in the process, according to a 404 Media investigation that tracked a rare book to an A…
Amazon is destroying rare books to train its AI models, according to a 404 Media investigation that tracked a rare book to Amazon's VGT3 facility in Las Vegas. Amazon confirmed it purchases books thro…
An investigation by 404 Media, which placed an AirTag inside a shipment of rare books, found that Amazon buys printed books in bulk, scans them for AI training data, and destroys them at a Las Vegas w…
A 404 Media investigation tracked a rare book with an Apple AirTag and found it ended at an Amazon warehouse in Las Vegas, Nevada, where employees cut bindings off books to scan them for AI training d…