404 Media podcast: inside the Amazon warehouse that destroys books for AI training
404 Media · rss · 2026-09-02
404 Media's weekly podcast leads with reporter Emanuel's follow-up on Amazon's book scanning story, featuring an interview with a warehouse worker who destroyed books used to train Amazon's AI products. The episode also covers the same few names repeatedly appearing in LLM output — 'AI ghosts' contaminating academic publishing — and, in the subscribers-only section, why ICE is buying massive amounts of 'voter fraud' data.
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