Tracking devices in book shipments reportedly led to an Amazon facility in Las Vegas emblazoned with a book-hungry dinosaur.

Amazon is buying tons of rare books, cutting off their spines, and scanning them for AI training, according to 404 Media, which placed a tracking device in a rare book that ultimately arrived at an ...

Amazon is reportedly cutting the spines off old books and scanning the pages at a Las Vegas facility, presumably to train AI models on text that exists almost nowhere else. The company won’t confirm ...

With 44 million book titles around the world and roughly $28 billion in revenue from book sales, Amazon has become a go-to source for readers, for better or worse. People purchase around 780–800 ...

Someone used A.I. to write my biography. Thousands more of those books are polluting Amazon. Who is behind all this drivel? Credit...Ahmed Gaber for The New York Times Supported by By Kashmir Hill ...

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