Amazon Is Reportedly Destroying Rare Books To Train AI Models

Amazon is reportedly acquiring and destroying rare and old books to train its AI systems. A 404 Media investigation used an AirTag to track a shipment of 1,000 books to an Amazon facility in Las Vegas. Reports indicate the warehouse spends its entire operation cutting spines off and scanning books. This practice of sourcing data from rare physical texts to feed language learning models has raised significant ethical concerns regarding the preservation of historical materials.