‼️ 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.
This conversation 🤣
Law Roach: I wore this for you to represent your culture.
Ziwe: And what culture is that?
Law Roach: Nigeria
Ziw: Leopard?
Roach: Hatuna Makana.
Ziwe: What the hell? That's Swahili. Apologize to Nigeria and my Nigerian culture.
Roach: I apologize, Nigeria, because I thought that this print represented your culture and the animals that you keep in your homes. Sorry, Nigeria.
Does anyone remember playing a game in school called “freerice” and when you played the game, people would give rice to children in countries who were starving?
If i ever get back into dating and discover that someone i thought I'd really clicked with was using an ai assistant to manage our relationship the whole time i would kill myself in a way that redefines how the world thinks of suicide