Podcast: We Spoke to an Amazon Worker Destroying Books for AI
2026-09-02 · 404 Media
Amazon is literally destroying physical books to feed the AI beast, and 404 Media tracked down a worker who's doing the shredding. Nothing says 'the future of knowledge' quite like pulping it first. Meanwhile, AI-generated papers keep recycling the same phantom names because the machines are just as lazy as they are hallucinated.