Investigation: Amazon is buying huge quantities of rare books, scanning them for AI, and destroying them; a tracked Biblio order went to its Las Vegas facility
THE SO WHAT
Training data acquisition is moving into a physical supply chain problem—buy, scan, and discard rare books at scale. If your business depends on proprietary or scarce content, assume it can leak via secondary markets and revisit how you track, watermark, or license physical media.
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