Amazon Destroys Books for AI Training

<!-- 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

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

<!-- 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

An AirTag hidden inside a rare book was tracked to a training facility in Las Vegas that houses a team focused on tearing books from their spines and scanning pages.

Rare books are incredibly valuable for training LLMs, since these models have already trained on whatever's available online.