Amazon joins other tech giants in gobbling up books to train AI, report finds

Source: New York Post· Marc Vartabedian· August 18, 2026

Amazon is reportedly buying massive quantities of rare books, scanning their pages to train its AI models and destroying the tomes in the process.

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