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Tracking the rare books that Amazon is feeding to AI.
404 Media put a tracker inside a shipment of rare books, which arrived at an Amazon warehouse in Las Vegas:
TL;DR
- A tracker was placed in a shipment of rare books.
- The shipment arrived at an Amazon warehouse in Las Vegas.
- Amazon employees destroy books by cutting off their bindings to scan them faster.
- This process is connected to AI companies using used books for training data.