We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility

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We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility

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We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.

https://web.archive.org/web/20260817141552/https://www.404media.co/we-tracked-a-shipment-of-rare-books-it-ended-at-an-amazon-ai-training-facility/

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And it’s not even just about being a monopoly for profit reasons, this time, if past knowledge becomes completely centralized by the powerful it can no longer be trusted

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