I came across an iOS app called Cibby that scans physical games and catalogs them in the app. The app also lets me export the ...

For the past year or so, booksellers have suspected that AI firms are buying up huge lots of rare books, then destroying them after scanning them to train AI. But this was hard to prove until now, as ...

Tracking devices in book shipments reportedly led to an Amazon facility in Las Vegas emblazoned with a book-hungry dinosaur.

404 Media put an Apple AirTag in a rare book and tracked it to an Amazon warehouse in Las Vegas, where a team cuts the bindings off books and scans the pages. The reporting method has roots in a ...

A $29 Apple AirTag, hidden inside a single rare book, has led an investigation to an Amazon warehouse in Las Vegas where employees dismantle books and scan their pages to generate data for AI training ...

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Unique works can’t be turned into training data as their value extends beyond the margins, says Marie Boran Jim Shaughnessy, ...

Amazon is buying old, obscure and rare books and sending them for destructive scanning at a facility used for AI-related work, according to an investigation by 404 Media. Booksellers and ...

Amazon is buying tons of rare books, cutting off their spines, and scanning them for AI training, according to 404 Media, which placed a tracking device in a rare book that ultimately arrived at an ...

Amazon is buying used books, scanning them to train its AI systems and then destroying them, according to a 404 Media investigation published Monday. 404 Media worked with an anonymous bookseller by ...