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Ars Technica Digs Into Amazon’s Use of Rare Books to Train AI
Ashley Belanger writes the following in “Hidden Airtag Reveals Amazon Is Trashing Rare Books to Train AI” for Ars Technica:For the past year or so, booksellers have suspected that AI firms are buying up huge lots of rare books, then destroying them after scanning them to train AI. But this was hard to prove until now, as 404 Media reports that an Airtag hidden in a rare book shows that at least one tech giant, in the race to advance its frontier models, is behind some of the bulk orders: Amazon. … [T]raining models on text from rare books that are difficult to find would seemingly offer an advantage for Amazon, especially since rivals like Anthropic and xAI have publicly stated that they are not training on rare or antique books. For more information, read the article.
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