Podcast: We Spoke to an Amazon Worker Destroying Books for AI
404 Media podcast covers Amazon destroying scanned books for AI training, recurring AI names in academic papers, and ICE voter-data spending.
404 Media's podcast follows up on its investigation of an Amazon warehouse where books are scanned and destroyed for AI training data, including an interview with a warehouse worker. The hosts also discuss how the same few names repeatedly surface in LLM outputs and AI-generated academic papers. The episode additionally covers ICE's plans to spend millions on voter fraud data and Boston Dynamics robot dogs.
- Amazon warehouse worker describes books being destroyed after scanning for AI training.
- Episode covers recurring 'ghost' names appearing in LLM-generated academic papers.
- ICE reportedly plans multimillion-dollar spending on voter fraud data and robot dogs.
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- AmazonBoston Dynamics
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- United States
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A follow up to the Amazon destroying books for AI story, why a bunch of names keep appearing in AI-generated papers, and ICE's latest spending spree.
By Joseph Cox · 404media.co
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