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We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility

Source: Slashdot.org· alternative_right· August 17, 2026

Amazon is buying massive quantities of books, scanning them for AI training data, and destroying them in the process.A 404 Media investigation was able to reveal Amazonâ(TM)s book buying operation, which hasnâ(TM)t been previously reported, by placing a track…

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