We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility

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A rare book ordered anonymously was tracked using an Apple AirTag and found to be delivered to Amazon's VGT3 facility in Las Vegas, suspected of scanning books for AI training. This confirms suspicions that companies are buying large volumes of books to digitize for AI data.

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