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

Amazon’s team uses a <em>T. rex</em> preparing to devour a book as its logo.

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>An investigation by the <em>404 Media</em> news outlet has revealed more insights into this practice after it agreed with a bookseller to place

<table> <tr><td> <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/comments/1vmixc1/booksellers_suspect_ai_firms_are_buying_and_then/"> <img alt="Booksellers suspect AI firms are buying

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>The email De Vries received never mentioned artificial intelligence or explained what the books would be used for., but it surfaced as AI

Amazon, once an online bookseller, is destroying rare books to train AI models

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