Summary
404 Media reported that Amazon is buying large quantities of rare books, scanning them and destroying them at a Las Vegas facility. Amazon said it purchases books through commercial channels to improve its products and services.
Why it matters
The report highlights how scarcity of high-quality training data is extending AI development into physical archives and intensifying questions about provenance, copyright and preservation.
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