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    Amazon Caught Destroying Rare Books to Train AI

    Tech corporations are converting irreplaceable historical texts into raw training data for generative models.

    "They just want the content as a bunch of words strung together." The post Amazon Caught Destroying Rare Books to Train AI appeared first on Futurism.

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    The systematic destruction of physical archives for digital data harvesting highlights a troubling friction between intellectual heritage and the raw training needs of large language models. This practice underscores the ethical crisis regarding how tech corporations prioritize massive datasets over the preservation of human history and tangible knowledge.

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