We tracked a shipment of rare books; it ended at an Amazon AI training facility
Read the original at simonwillison.net→We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility Excellent piece of reporting from 404 Media. For a while now there have been stories of book dealers receiving orders for large volumes...
Original headline: "We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility"
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- Aug 17, 13:44 UTC Hacker News (AI) We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility
- Aug 17, 15:21 UTC Simon Willison lead source We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility
- Aug 17, 16:38 UTC TechCrunch AI Amazon, which started off selling books, is destroying rare texts to train AI