Hidden AirTag appears to confirm suspicions about illicit AI book scanning
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Amazon Employees Are Literally Cutting the Bindings off Rare Books All Day Long to Train Language Models
Online retail giant Amazon is allegedly destroying thousands of rare books at a Las Vegas warehouse to scan their pages and train artificial intelligence language models, according to a new investigation. The news came after an independent technology outlet placed a tracking device inside a rare book it suspected was being purchased for AI training purposes and followed its journey across the US to a Nevada facility. Once the shipment of obscure…
Hidden AirTag appears to confirm suspicions about illicit AI book scanning
Suspicious bulk orders of used books have led many booksellers to believe they are being purchased on behalf of AI companies so that they can be scanned and used as training material without author consent or payment. An AirTag hidden inside a rare book sold as part of a bulk order appears to confirm the theory after it ended up at an Amazon AI training facility …
Secondhand booksellers in UK and Ireland suspect AI firms behind...
Development comes after Anthropic was found to have spent millions on books to scan for 'data acquisition' Secondhand booksellers in the UK and Ireland are reporting a flurry of bulk orders from mystery buyers, amid speculation AI companies are acquiring the tomes for their data. Bookshops contacted by the Guardian say they have been receiving orders from buyers in the US, Canada, continental Europe and the UK. The increase has been replicated a…
Antiquarians in Germany and Austria report large orders - apparently the books AI will be trained
Thanks to an AirTag hidden in a book, journalists followed a batch of books to a secret warehouse in Amazon. On the spot, the volumes are cut, scanned and destroyed to feed the company's AI models, a method already observed at Anthropic and which raises serious concerns about the preservation of knowledge.
A shipment of a thousand rare books has ended up in an Amazon warehouse in Las Vegas after tracing with an Apple label. Behind the finding is an investigation of the specialized medium 404 Media. A rare book seller detected an unusual sales peak and placed a localization tag on a thousand volume shipment purchased through Biblio. The goal was simple: to follow the trail of a purchase that seemed too big for a collector. And what appeared was an …
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