# 亚马逊为训练 AI 模型大量购入并销毁珍稀书籍

- 来源：TechCrunch：AI（RSS）
- 作者：Amanda Silberling
- 发布时间：2026-08-18 00:38
- AIHOT 分数：54
- AIHOT 链接：https://aihot.virxact.com/items/cmsxh2ro701rdrosw8etdu17i
- 原文链接：https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/17/amazon-once-an-online-bookseller-is-destroying-rare-books-to-train-ai-models

## AI 摘要

据 404 Media 报道，亚马逊正大量购入珍稀书籍，切掉书脊后扫描用于 AI 训练，其追踪器最终抵达亚马逊位于拉斯维加斯的 VGT3 设施。亚马逊回应称通过商业渠道购书以改善客户使用的产品与服务。这些绝版或网上难寻的书籍提供了宝贵训练数据，因 2022 年前出版的文本可避免“模型崩溃”风险。

## 正文

Amazon is buying tons of rare books, cutting off their spines, and scanning them for AI training, according to 404 Media, which placed a tracking device in a rare book that ultimately arrived at an Amazon facility in Las Vegas.

The facility, known as VGT3, identifies itself with a symbol of a dinosaur holding a book in its claws. Amazon told 404 Media in a statement that it “purchases books through commercial channels to improve the products and services customers use.”

Companies like Amazon need unfathomably large amounts of text to train their LLMs, which have already ingested what they can from the internet (and, in Anthropic’s case, illegally pirated books). Rare books, especially ones that are out of print or impossible to find on the internet, offer a new source of coveted training data.

These texts are especially valuable since there’s no chance that anything published before 2022 was written by an LLM. When LLMs train on AI-generated text, they risk “model collapse,” which can occur when the quality of an LLM’s outputs degrade after ingesting too much AI-generated text.