404 Media Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility

3 days ago by James R Kirk to c/quarks

We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.

albbi 5 points 3 days ago

It's crazy how AI could have been something somewhat interesting, but it got turned into this horrible monster. Super polluting, economy wrecking and now information and history destroying.

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Kirk 3 points 2 days ago

AI still could be interesting, I don't personally consider a text generator to be an intelligence but maybe the corporations are!

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DFX4509B 3 points 3 days ago

This is the second coming of Nazi book burnings.

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