Journalists hid an AirTag and traced rare books to Amazon's AI training scan operation
evilsocket · x · 2026-08-19
Journalists hid an AirTag in a rare-book shipment and confirmed Amazon is among the bulk buyers, with books tracked to its LAS8 warehouse in Las Vegas. There, a scanning operation called VGT3 feeds Amazon's AI training data, and workers say book bindings are cut off to speed up scanning. Amazon won't say why the books are destroyed, prompting calls to stockpile physical books — a real-life Fahrenheit 451.
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