Amazon is shredding books to train AI
an investigation revealed amazon buys and destroys books at a las vegas facility to scan data for ai training. this signals a desperate, destructive data hunt for copyright-free text.
404 media tracked a rare book to an amazon warehouse in las vegas, confirming the company buys and destroys printed books to scan data for ai training. workers at the facility, known as vgt3, reportedly cut bindings off mass shipments of books to digitize them. this operation highlights the extreme lengths tech giants are going to secure training data, bypassing digital copyright restrictions by acquiring physical media.