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We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.

https://www.404media.co/we-tracked-a-shipment-of-rare-books-it-ended-at-an-amazon-ai-training-facility/

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nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqn6lzeu5za3nznyqekzw5zymfveq5vjvfz8vjf77s04l357xmtsyqpa0jjs That employees are scanning the barcodes or ISBNs on books — a unique serial number given to every published book — before scanning their content gives further credence to another t...

We don't need AI. AI needs us. · 8w

nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqn6lzeu5za3nznyqekzw5zymfveq5vjvfz8vjf77s04l357xmtsyqpa0jjs So they are not training AI, they want to be the gatekeeper of knowledge, with a fare. We should buy books in bulk.