2026-07-15 16:48:49
Amazing reporting by #404Media today: https://www.404media.co/we-tracked-a-shipment-of-rare-books-it-ended-at-an-amazon-ai-training-facility/
If you don't follow @… they first published an article about book companies buying books to be scanned and destroyed by AI companies. ( https://www.404media.co/ai-companies-are-buying-tons-of-old-books-because-theyre-free-of-ai-slop/ ) The main company that article was about deleted that offering and said "sikes!". They claimed it was just an exploratory business offering and they didn't do any of that. ( https://www.404media.co/ai-company-training-scanning-books-database-isbndb/ )
404 Media was like, hand me an air tag and hold my beer.