Journalists hid an AirTag and traced rare books Amazon buys and destroys to feed AI training
TuhinChakr · x · 2026-08-18
Journalists hid an AirTag inside a rare book shipment and confirmed Amazon is among the buyers behind bulk orders of rare books that are destroyed to feed its AI training data.
The shipment was traced to Amazon's LAS8 warehouse in Las Vegas, home to a scanning operation called VGT3, where workers say they cut the bindings off books to scan them faster. Amazon declined to explain why the books are being destroyed.
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