Amazon, which started off selling books, is destroying rare texts to train AI

Amazon is buying rare books, cutting off their spines, and scanning them for AI training, according to a 404 Media investigation that tracked a book to an Amazon facility in Las Vegas. The facility, VGT3, is identified by a dinosaur holding a book. Amazon confirmed it purchases books through commercial channels to improve its services. Rare books offer valuable training data because they are not online and predate AI-generated content, which can cause model collapse.