Amazon joins the list of companies destroying rare books to feed to the AI machine
An AirTag hidden in a rare book followed its journey to a Las Vegas warehouse, where it was likely destroyed in an effort to supply fresh data to hungry LLMs. Amazon is destroying rare books to train AI | Image credit: jarmoluk at Pixabay I don't know if you've noticed, but everything is becoming increasingly AI-generated. Whether it's news, music, or social media, AI has seemingly stuck all of…
Amazon has joined the growing list of companies facing criticism for destroying rare books to feed the data needs of artificial intelligence (AI) systems. The practice of using rare books as a source of information for AI models has come under scrutiny, as it raises concerns about the preservation of literary history and the potential for AI-generated content to overshadow human-created works.
The incident, in which an AirTag hidden inside a rare book was tracked to a Las Vegas warehouse where it was likely destroyed, highlights the extent to which Amazon is willing to go in order to supply fresh data to its language models.
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