AirTag Tracking Confirms Rare Books Ship to Amazon AI Training Facility
Simon Willison · rss · 2026-08-17
404 Media used an AirTag to confirm that bulk orders of rare books from mysterious buyers are destined for Amazon. The books were delivered to an Amazon facility in Las Vegas, which workers confirm destructively scans large volumes of books, validating suspicions about tech companies harvesting physical books for AI training data.
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