Simon Willison 8/17/2026

We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility

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17th August 2026 - Link Blog 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 for large volumes of books from apparently price-insensitive anonymous customers, widely suspected to be companies looking to scan them for AI training (see my previous cov

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