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Amazon Caught Destroying Rare Books to Train AI (futurism.com)
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[–] Etterra@discuss.online 13 points 21 hours ago

They tracked the shipment to a site at a massive Amazon warehouse in Nevada, where workers say their job is to strip the spines off of books they receive so they can quickly scan their pages, destroying them in the process.

So what they're saying is, we should start making as many legit-looking books full of bullshit and gibberish as possible, then send them to Nevada where they can be used to help "train" their AI.