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404 Media planted a tracking device in a rare book and followed it to an Amazon warehouse in Las Vegas, exposing an unreported...
Amazon operation that buys large quantities of books, scans them for AI training data, and destroys them. The investigation raises new copyright and data-sourcing concerns about how AI companies obtain training material.
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404 Media planted a tracking device in a rare book and followed it to an Amazon warehouse in Las Vegas, exposing an unreported Amazon operation that buys large quantities of books, scans them for AI training data, and destroys them. The investigation raises new copyright and data-sourcing concerns about how AI companies obtain training material.
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