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AirTag-tracked rare book shipment ends at Amazon AI training facility

simonwillison.net · 2026-08-18

404 Media placed an AirTag in a bulk book order and traced it to an Amazon facility in Las Vegas where workers confirm books are destructively scanned. Confirms reports of AI firms bulk-buying books as training data.

“Online forum discussions between Amazon workers confirmed that VGT3 destructively scans large volumes of books.”

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