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Hidden Airtag reveals Amazon is trashing rare books to train AI

Ars Technica · 2026-08-17 Cached

Amazon is secretly buying and destroying rare books to scan them for AI training data, as revealed by a hidden Airtag. This practice is part of Amazon's effort to develop frontier AI models and has sparked ethical debates.

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Amazon, which started off selling books, is destroying rare texts to train AI

TechCrunch AI · 2026-08-17 Cached

Amazon is purchasing and destroying rare books to scan them for AI model training data, raising ethical and data sourcing concerns in LLM development.

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Booksellers suspect AI firms are buying and then destroying rare books

Ars Technica · 2026-08-12 Cached

AI companies are suspected of buying and destroying rare books to use as training data, raising concerns among booksellers and book lovers. The article contrasts this with the Internet Archive's careful, human-driven scanning process and Google's non-destructive patent as alternatives.

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@interjc: don’t be evil

X AI KOLs Following · 2026-07-28 Cached

AI companies are buying and destroying physical books, including rare copies, to train their models, raising ethical and legal concerns about the treatment of cultural artifacts.

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@danshipper: if true, this sucks and shouldn't continue with rare books

X AI KOLs Following · 2026-07-27 Cached

AI companies are reportedly bulk-buying rare books, scanning them by cutting spines and shredding originals, facilitated by a service called ISBNdb, raising ethical concerns.

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AI companies are shredding rare books

Hacker News Top · 2026-07-27 Cached

AI companies are bulk-buying rare books, scanning them by cutting spines and shredding the originals, facilitated by ISBNdb, with a federal judge ruling it fair use. This irreversible destruction of cultural artifacts has sparked outrage.

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AI Companies Are Buying Antique Books, Ingesting Their Contents to Train Models, and Then Destroying Them at Incredible Scale, Even If Almost No Copies Remain

Reddit r/singularity · 2026-07-26 Cached

AI companies are purchasing and destroying rare physical books to obtain training data that is free from AI-generated content, exploiting legal doctrines like fair use and first-sale doctrine, while raising ethical and preservation concerns.

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