Tracked Shipment of Rare Books Ends at Amazon AI Training Facility
amarcheschi · hn · 2026-08-17
An investigation tracking a shipment of rare books revealed their final destination was an Amazon AI training facility. This raises questions about whether tech giants are using copyrighted book data to train large models, though Amazon has not yet commented specifically on the matter.
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