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Amazon Confirmed Buying and Destroying Books to Scan for AI Training Data
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A 404 Media investigation traced a bulk book order to an Amazon warehouse in Las Vegas where employees cut bindings off books for faster scanning, confirming Amazon destroys physical books to extract AI training text.
This confirms that Amazon is consuming and destroying physical books to feed AI training pipelines, linking the recent unexplained spike in bulk book purchases to AI data acquisition. Printed books are attractive training sources because their content often isn't available online and pre-2022 editions are guaranteed free of AI-generated text that causes model collapse.
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Amazon purchases books through commercial marketplaces and destroys them by cutting bindings to scan the text for AI training data.
The operation runs out of Amazon warehouse LAS8 in Las Vegas, where a team called VGT3 processes massive shipments of books.
Printed books are valuable for AI training because their content often isn't available online and pre-2022 books are free of AI-generated text.
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