Amazon Mass-Purchasing Rare Books, Scanning, and Destroying Them
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Amazon is secretly purchasing rare books, scanning their pages to train its AI models, and then destroying the originals. An investigation by 404 Media found that Amazon is buying these books in bulk, removing their covers to speed up scanning, and disposing of them afterwards. Amazon has confirmed the practice but hasn't specified which AI systems are being trained on the scans.
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