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Amazon, once an online bookseller, is destroying rare books to train AI models

Rare books are incredibly valuable for training LLMs, since these models have already trained on whatever's available online.
Rare books are incredibly valuable for training LLMs, since these models have already trained on whatever's available online.

This article was originally published at: https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/17/amazon-once-an-online-b...