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Amazon joins other tech giants in gobbling up books to train AI, report finds

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Amazon is reportedly buying massive quantities of rare books, scanning their pages to train its AI models and destroying the tomes in the process.

Quartz7 hrs ago

A 404 Media investigation tracked a rare book to an Amazon warehouse in Las Vegas where workers cut spines off books to scan them

Amazon is reportedly buying books and destroying them to help build out a new technology.

Amazon’s team uses a T. rex preparing to devour a book as its logo.

TechCrunch🏁 first to report1 days ago

Rare books are incredibly valuable for training LLMs, since these models have already trained on whatever's available online.