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Amazon Is Buying and Destroying Rare Books to Train New AI Models
1+ hour, 1+ min ago (257+ words) Journalists worked with a rare bookseller to see who was buying all their inventory. They hid a tracking tag inside one rare book that was part of a large order. The book shipped across the country until it finally arrived…...
Amazon Scans and Destroys Rare Books for AI Training - Report
4+ hour, 57+ min ago (377+ words) Amazon is buying printed books in bulk, cutting the bindings off, scanning the pages for AI training data and discarding the paper, according to a 404 Media investigation published on 17 August 2026. Reporter Emanuel Maiberg confirmed the operation by hiding an Apple…...
‘The Hearth' Weekly Prompt #3 And Week 2 Winners
1+ hour, 53+ min ago (38+ words) Genie in a Bottle, Three Wishes Later Hi, Hearthlings 🤍 When I was small, I used to lie awake making up what I'd ask for if a genie ever actually …...
How an AirTag planted by a reporter led to a secret Amazon site where old books are cut apart and scanned
7+ hour, 11+ min ago (515+ words) 404 Media put an Apple AirTag in a rare book and tracked it to an Amazon warehouse in Las Vegas, where a team cuts the bindings off books and scans the pages. The reporting method has a history that runs through…...
AI Books Now Take 31% of Amazon’s New Bestseller Slots
4+ hour, 47+ min ago (28+ words) A study of 14,419 Amazon ebooks: AI titles take 31% of new bestseller slots, and authors who never touched AI are losing money. I'm one of them....
Amazon is Destroying Rare Books to Secretly Train its AI Models | iPhone in Canada
14+ hour, 3+ min ago (344+ words) An investigation by 404 Media has exposed a hidden operation inside Amazon. The tech giant is found to be buying up massive quantities of rare physical books, slicing off their spines to speed-scan the pages and feed its Nova AI models…...
Amazon Is Cutting Up Rare Books to Feed Its AI Machine
11+ hour, 37+ min ago (425+ words) Amazon built its empire on books. Now it may be destroying them. A new investigation reveals that the company is buying up rare books, slicing off their spines, and scanning every page. Each page is fed to hungry AI models…...
Are AI Companies Really Buying—And Destroying–Antique Books?
12+ hour, 9+ min ago (338+ words) Authors, archivists, historians and bibliophiles have launched an online war against tech giants and artificial intelligence developers after an increasing mountain of evidence shows they’re buying rare and antique books en masse and feeding them to large language models—only…...
Amazon Caught Destroying Rare Books to Train AI
8+ hour, 47+ min ago (596+ words) Amazon has been caught scanning and destroying a large shipment of rare books so it can train its AI models. In an investigation by 404 Media, a bookseller suspected that an order they received for 1,000 books on Biblio, a marketplace where…...
Anthropic allegedly destroyed millions of rare books to train AI — now booksellers see a surge in mysterious bulk orders
2+ week, 1+ day ago (790+ words) Some liken it to the burning of the Library of Alexandria. Others find it reminiscent of the book bonfires at the heart of Fahrenheit 451. A Dutch bookseller called it "a kind of barbarism." However you describe it, many literature lovers…...