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Are my own books bad enough for Big Tech?
1+ week, 5+ day ago (43+ words) AI and the mysterious case of the boring books The Times Are my own books bad enough for Big Tech? Bulk shipments of unlikely and unfashionable titles have been flying out of bookshops after decades on the shelves, and AI…...
Great Authors For Your Child's Library: Resist the AI Invasion
3+ week, 10+ hour ago (644+ words) If you are wanting to preserve great children’s books by the best of authors for your family, now is the time to collect and keep some safe for your children and maybe theirs one day! I fear that AI is…...
A Bookseller Hid an Airtag in a Shipment of 1,000 Rare Books and Tracked It to an Amazon Warehouse Where Workers Strip the Spines Off and Scan Them to Death
3+ week, 2+ day ago (594+ words) A judge already ruled this is legal. In the lawsuit that first exposed the practice, a court found that Anthropic cutting the pages out of millions of books, scanning them, and disposing of the originals was “transformative” and didn’t violate…...
La Mesa bookstore owner blocks sales over AI data center???s mass destruction of used and rare books
3+ week, 2+ day ago (554+ words) “Project Panama is our effort to destructively scan all the books in the world. We don’t want it to be known that we are working on this.” — Anthropic internal document revealed in a lawsuit (La Mesa) – AI data centers have…...
Amazon says it buys books in bulk to 'improve products"
3+ week, 3+ day ago (473+ words) Amazon has said it buys books through commercial channels to develop its products after an investigation traced a bulk order of rare books to a facility where workers reportedly destroy and scan physical copies. “Amazon purchases books through commercial channels…...
Amazon Is Buying Rare Books to Train AI, Then Destroying Them
3+ week, 3+ day ago (261+ words) Amazon buys used books in bulk, cuts and scans them for AI training, destroying what’s left. Investigation reveals suspiciously large orders through Biblio ending up at Amazon’s LAS8 facility for cutting and scanning. AI developers benefit from scanning old books for…...
From Selling to Erasing Books: Why Amazon Is Destroying Original Literature – Emerald Book
3+ week, 3+ day ago (389+ words) The company built on selling books is now destroying them. A new investigation reveals Amazon's industrial-scale operation to slice, scan, and shred rare literature for AI training data—exposing the tech industry's desperate, multi-front panic over running out of human-written…...
Report: Amazon Is Buying and Destroying Rare Books to Train AI
3+ week, 3+ day ago (191+ words) A bookseller planted the AirTag in a shipment of rare books. It led straight to a Las Vegas warehouse where a team scans and shreds them. A rare bookseller suspected AI companies were quietly buying up rare books to train…...
Amazon Caught Destroying Rare Books to Feed AI: Historians and Book Lovers Furious
3+ week, 4+ day ago (662+ words) A suspicious order for 1,000 rare books led 404 Media to hide an AirTag inside one. It travelled across America and ended up at an Amazon facility where workers reportedly cut books apart and scan them for AI training. Reporter Emanuel Maiberg…...
Amazon buys rare books, cuts spines to feed AI training data
3+ week, 5+ day ago (307+ words) To Train Its AI, Amazon Is Snapping Up Rare Books and Cutting Off Their Bindings inkorr.com To Train Its AI, Amazon Is Snapping Up Rare Books and Cutting Off Their Bindings How Amazon Is Building a Rare-Book Collection for…...