A Hidden AirTag Followed Rare Books to an Amazon Warehouse — and to the Shredder
An investigation revealed that Amazon and Anthropic are acquiring and destroying rare books to use their content for training artificial intelligence models. This practice involves slicing off book spines for faster scanning, effectively rendering the physical copies irretrievable. A court ruling found similar scanning practices by Anthropic to be fair use, partly because the original books were destroyed.
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