I’d like to reiterate how difficult it is to have granola infected with salmonella. It’s even more difficult than chili peppers, and no, it’s not “foreign producers” that are the problem. It’s quality control and standards not being enforced.
‼️ BREAKING: Journalists hid an Airtag in a rare book shipment and confirmed Amazon to be one of the buyers behind the bulk orders destroying rare-books to feed their AI.
They tracked it to Amazon's LAS8 warehouse in Las Vegas, home to VGT3 (see logo below), a scanning operation feeding Amazon's AI training data, where workers say they cut the bindings off books to scan them faster.
Amazon won't say why the books are destroyed.
‼️ BREAKING: Journalists hid an Airtag in a rare book shipment and confirmed Amazon to be one of the buyers behind the bulk orders destroying rare-books to feed their AI.
They tracked it to Amazon's LAS8 warehouse in Las Vegas, home to VGT3 (see logo below), a scanning operation feeding Amazon's AI training data, where workers say they cut the bindings off books to scan them faster.
Amazon won't say why the books are destroyed.
I love how they found a way to use a blood test for men’s prostate cancer, but I still have to get my titties slammed in a press and my cervix scraped with a brush...
So basically all the food is going to kill us now because the Trump administration put a heroine addict in charge of HHS & gutted the FDA and their regulations on food safety.
Nice work…idiots.
a reminder that demi lovato used to give a vocal performance of generation while excessively touring (and working a lot in general), was heavily working out six times a week, wasn't even twice as skinny as ariana and she still was throwing up blood after every meal
I’m not even gonna lie to yall. This should be… NEEDS TO BE… the FINAL fucking straw with ai. We cannot allow shit like this to keep happening. We risk losing our identity as a species. We risk losing our art to the machines. We risk cutting off new art forever. This isn’t good
So if I purchase a DVD and digitize it, that’s copyright infringement. But if an AI company buys my book and scans it to train their system, that’s perfectly fine? Once again, corporations are allowed to play by their own rules. I’m so sick of the hypocrisy.
🦔AI companies are bulk-buying rare books, scanning them through high-speed machines that cut the spines off, and shredding the originals. A service called ISBNdb facilitates orders of up to a million books and keeps buyers anonymous. Pre-2022 books are premium because they're free of AI-generated text. A federal judge ruled the practice is fair use because eliminating the original means only one copy exists at a time. Anthropic hired the former head of Google Books partnerships to obtain "all the books in the world."
My Take
This got to me. A bookseller told 404 Media that rare books with almost no surviving copies are being fed into this pipeline. Books that survived wars, fires, and centuries of handling are being shredded so an AI can learn to write a better marketing email.
ISBNdb's website literally says "'AI company destroys two million books' is not a headline that generates sympathy," and they still built an entire business around making it happen quietly. They offer NDAs as a feature. They coach clients to call it "digital preservation."
I've covered AI companies scraping the internet, torrenting libraries, and stealing music. This is worse because it's irreversible. You can re-upload a website. You can reprint a bestseller. You can't replace the last three copies of an 18th-century botanical text once someone shreds them for training data. And the judge said it's legal. So it's going to accelerate.
"We shred rare books and offer NDAs so nobody finds out" is a legitimate business model in 2026. What a timeline.
Hedgie🤗
🚨 A man used Grok to create sexual videos of a real 12-year-old girl and police found actual photos and videos of the child on his phone.
Andrew Murray, 33, from Fort Wayne, was arrested after the explicit AI-generated content was discovered. He now faces charges of child exploitation and possession of child sexual abuse material.
This is what happens when people use AI to produce child sexual abuse material involving a real child.
Sources: 21Alive
It’s crazy how we have to keep explaining to you cretins that AI constantly gets misused like this and yet you lot will continue to justify it.
Investing in AI is investing in child harm and environmental destruction. Is that really the hill you wish to die on?