A dinosaur logo is at the center of controversy surrounding the whereabouts of some rare literature.
This story, involving Amazon, has taken wild cross-country turns and led to one of the most unexpected places.
‘They just want the content as a bunch of words strung together.’
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As AI companies have rushed to gobble up texts for digitization and model training, suspicion has mounted that companies are buying up batches of rare tomes for uses they’d rather keep under wraps.
When it comes to Amazon, the granddaddy of Big Tech book merchants, the narrative starts with one specific shipment of 1,000 books.
Described as having been printed in small batches or obscure languages, the thousand were purchased through an online marketplace called Biblio.
A journalist from 404 Media, piquing his curiosity, asked
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