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アマゾンがAI訓練データのために書籍をスキャンし破棄する倉庫に関する記事の要点を以下の通り-summarized-します：
1. アマゾンのVGT3倉庫（LAS8内）で、数千冊の本がAI訓練用にスキャンされ、破棄されていることが明らかになりました。この倉庫はネバダ州ラスベガスにあるアマゾン施設の一部です。
2. 倉庫での作業内容として、書籍の背脊部分を切り取り、ページを集積した後、これらがシャトルに投入される様子が説明されました。さらに、その過程は安全で、手も怪我しない仕組みであると述べられています。
3. アマゾンがこの作業を行っている理由については、最初はキンドルに関連していたとされていましたが、著作権問題からAI訓練用のデータ集めだと見解が変化したとのことです。
4. 一方で、インタビューに答えた元アマゾン社員は、このような書籍の破棄や再利用されない状況に不満を示し、多くの知識が失われてしまうことを懸念しています。また、一部の本は珍しいものだと考えられることも指摘されました。
5. この記事は、アマゾンがAI訓練用データを集めるために大量の書籍を破棄する実態を明らかにすることで、社会的な問題点を探る試みです。
Last week, 404 Media published a story that revealed an Amazon warehouse where the company scans and destroys thousands of books for AI training data. Today, the publication has released an interview with one of the Amazon employees at the warehouse. "The employee worked at Amazon's VGT3 warehouse, which is housed in the same facility as LAS8, where Amazon operates its print-on-demand business," reports 404 Media. "Both operations are part of a larger complex of Amazon facilities in Las Vegas, Nevada." Slashdot reader alternative_right shares an excerpt from the report: [...] What does it look like when they cut the spines off the books?
It's a machine people operate. Each of these machines is just like a little workstation, and there'll be one person at each of these stations. It's really safe because it has a little cover and it has a little area where you slide the book into, remove your fingers from the area, and then you press a button, and it just comes down and slices it. And then you remove the books after the blade is gone.
After they cut the spines they have these kind of library carts, kind of like how you would stack books, but instead, it's a stacks of paper and little cardboard things to separate -- I'm guessing -- the different books. I saw the pages being thrown in a shuttle after they were scanned. We were walking by and we went over to one of the shuttles and looked into it because we could tell they were throwing the old books in it or the cut books in it, and it's just a bunch of loose paper like just sheets thrown in there.
What do you think about Amazon doing this?
At first what they were telling people is that it was for Kindles, but I just didn't believe that. I instantly was like, I don't think that's how they do it because of publication rights and stuff, copyright and everything. Then I saw it was for AI. I don't like it only because I wish I could take these books. There's so much knowledge and so much stuff in them and some of them look like they might be rare, and I've heard that they order rare books, and that's why I say some of these are so obscure. I definitely don't like the idea that they can't be reused or anything like that afterwards. They're reducing the amount of available copies for other people.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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