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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months ago

Amazon Caught Destroying Rare Books to Train AI

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Amazon Caught Destroying Rare Books to Train AI

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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months ago

An investigation by 404 Media found that Amazon bought a shipment of rare books so it could scan and destroy them to train AI.

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Nothing good ever came of destroying books.
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  Except when they are digitized and made publicly avaiable

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