Podcast: Amazon is Destroying Rare Books to Train AI
404 Media podcast covers Amazon buying and destroying rare books for AI training, AI misuse in court cases, and Meta's glasses patent.
404 Media's podcast discusses its investigation tracing a shipment of rare books to an Amazon AI training facility where they were destroyed, alongside reporting on AI misuse in courts: an expert witness who used ChatGPT to write a report defending 3M in a deadly explosion lawsuit, and a prompt injection hidden in a legal filing instructing AI to side with one party. It also covers Meta's new patent for AI smart glasses with facial recognition and research into the glasses being used to harass women.
- Amazon purchased and destroyed masses of books to train AI models
- Expert witness used ChatGPT to defend 3M in explosion lawsuit
- Prompt injection found in legal filing telling AI to favor a side
- Meta patented facial-recognition features for AI smart glasses
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· Aug 19, 2026 at 4:06 PM
Amazon buying and destroying rare books to train AI; a bunch of wild AI use in the courts; and Meta's new patent for its AI smart glasses.
We start this week with Emanuel’s big story about Amazon buying, and destroying, masses of books to train AI. After the break we talk about a couple of wild cases where people are using AI. In the subscribers-only section, we talk about Meta’s new smart glasses patent and research into how perverts are using them.
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- We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility
- ‘Show How 3M Is 0% at Fault:’ Expert Witness Used ChatGPT to Write Report Defending Company in Deadly Explosion Lawsuit
- Person Hides Prompt Injection in Legal Filing Telling AI to Side With Them
- Meta Patents AI Glasses to Use Facial Recognition to Identify People, Make Highlight Reels of Your Dinner Party
- Researchers Show How Meta's 'Pervert Glasses' Are Used to Harass Women
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