Suspicions have arisen in past weeks, various accusations that AI companies are scanning older books for their content for training their platforms. Used books were being levied in bulk for used books that were sufficiently outside of the AI era we are in. More proof has arisen in the form of a bookseller hiding an airtag inside of a rare book that wound up at an Amazon AI training facility. The expected next step, for which we don’t have full proof, is that they are stripping the bindings, then using high-speed scanners to bring this material in. For popular books, that isn’t so much of a problem, but if a book is rare and then destroyed, that deprives collectors and enthusiasts of the written page.
Suspicious bulk orders of used books have led many booksellers to believe they are being purchased on behalf of AI…
Source: Hidden AirTag appears to confirm suspicions about illicit AI book scanning
