In an investigative endeavor, 404 Media strategically placed a tracker inside a shipment of rare books, which was subsequently delivered to an Amazon warehouse located in Las Vegas.
Employees at this particular Amazon facility have described their primary role as receiving vast consignments of printed books. Their process involves systematically removing the bindings to facilitate quicker scanning, an operation that inevitably leads to the destruction of the physical book.
This discovery aligns with a report published last month by 404 Media, which revealed that artificial intelligence companies are actively purchasing used books in bulk, specifically to utilize them as data for training AI models.
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