404 Media 追踪珍本图书流向：亚马逊批量购书扫描用于 AI 训练后销毁
我们追踪了一批珍本图书的运输过程。最终，这些书被送到了亚马逊的一处人工智能训练中心
404 Media 通过在一本珍本图书中放置追踪设备，首次揭露亚马逊未公开的购书行动：批量购入大量书籍，扫描用于 AI 训练数据，随后销毁。追踪显示这些书最终被送往亚马逊的一处人工智能训练中心。
跟踪证据把AI训练数据采购从传闻落到可查验的物流链条上，为版权方和作者判断图书被数字化利用提供了具体依据。
We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility
Amazon is buying massive quantities of books, scanning them for AI training data, and destroying them in the process.
A 404 Media investigation was able to reveal Amazon’s book buying operation, which hasn’t been previously reported, by placing a tracking device in a rare book we suspected would be acquired by an AI company for training data, and following it around the country to its final destination.
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That final destination was an Amazon warehouse in Las Vegas, Nevada. Amazon employees who work at this location say all they do is receive massive shipments of printed books which they then cut the bindings off in order to scan the books more quickly. The printed book is destroyed in the process. The logo of the Amazon team that works at this warehouse, called VGT3, is a dinosaur, brandishing its teeth and with a book in its hands.
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