We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility
2026-08-17 · 404 Media
Amazon has been secretly buying up rare books, scanning them for AI training data, and then destroying the originals. Because nothing says 'advancing human knowledge' like pulping irreplaceable literary works after feeding them to a machine. At least they were thorough enough to leave a paper trail — or rather, no paper at all.