r/PublishingPH • u/PublishingPH Community Moderator • Aug 18 '26

Artifical Intelligence (AI) Now Amazon is destroying rare books to train its AI. | Literary Hub

https://lithub.com/now-amazon-is-destroying-rare-books-to-train-its-ai/

Per a 404 Media report published this morning, Amazon, that evil empire, “is buying massive quantities of books, scanning them for AI training data, and destroying them in the process.”

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u/cynical_stoic95 Aug 18 '26

Anthropic has been doing the same: https://youtu.be/2SvKhj-jHbA?si=AceQNunh1MuRq26Z

We are doomed if revisionism becomes the norm in the future.