Tracker Reveals Amazon Facility Destroying Books to Train AI
emptybits · hn · 2026-08-24
A report by Tom's Hardware reveals that a secret tracking device placed in a rare book ended up at an Amazon processing facility. This discovery exposed a practice at the warehouse: destroying books to train AI models. The incident has sparked discussions about the ethics of AI training data sourcing and the destruction of physical media.
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