AirTag reveals Amazon destroys books for AI training
The Decoder · rss · 2026-08-17
Reports indicate that Amazon purchases large quantities of printed books, scans them for AI training data, and then destroys the physical copies. AirTag tracking devices revealed this process, raising concerns about the preservation of rare materials and the ethics of AI data acquisition.
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