An Apple AirTag hidden inside a book from a large used-book order led 404 Media to an Amazon facility in Las Vegas that employees described as a site for scanning printed books into AI training data. …
Secondhand booksellers across the UK and Ireland report a surge of bulk orders from anonymous buyers, suspecting AI firms are acquiring books for training data. Stuart Manley of Barter Books in Alnwic…
Secondhand booksellers in the UK and Ireland report a surge in bulk orders from mystery buyers, suspected to be AI companies acquiring books for data scanning. Stuart Manley of Barter Books in Alnwick…
Rare book sellers in Australia are alarmed by the possibility that their stock is being bought and destroyed to train generative AI models, following a US court ruling that deemed Anthropic's 'destruc…
Australian rare book sellers report bulk, price-insensitive orders from Canadian book recycler Zoom Books, raising fears their stock is being scanned and destroyed to train AI models. The practice, kn…
Companies including Anthropic are buying thousands of used books, scanning them to train AI models, and then destroying or recycling the physical copies, according to reports from Anadolu Agency and T…
AI developers are buying large quantities of old books in Germany, particularly scientific and academic literature, to train language models, according to German booksellers. The practice has raised c…