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Reports say Amazon scanned and destroyed rare books for AI training
For the past year or so, booksellers have suspected that AI firms are buying up huge lots of rare books, then destroying them after scanning them to train AI. But this was hard to prove until now, as…
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We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility
We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility Excellent piece of reporting from 404 Media. For a while now there have been stories of book dealers receiving orders f…
Simon Willison's Weblog Aug 12 · Wed
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Twitch content has trained Amazon AI for years, but users can opt out now
Twitch now lets users opt out of Amazon’s use of content from their channels to train Amazon’s “generative AI content models.” The change, announced today, comes more than two years after a company e…
Ars Technica AI Aug 11 · Tue
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Daybreak models are now available on AWS
OpenAI and AWS are making Daybreak cybersecurity capabilities available through Amazon Bedrock to support enterprise security workflows.
OpenAI News Aug 10 · Mon
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Amazon backs power plant that may become top source of US climate pollution
Amazon’s artificial intelligence ambitions will soon be partly fueled by a natural gas-burning power plant in Texas that “could become the largest single source of climate pollution in the United Sta…
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