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

An investigation tracked a thousand-book shipment to an Amazon facility in northeast Las Vegas using an AirTag, according to Simon Willison's Weblog. Workers there confirmed the facility destructively scans books in bulk for AI training—part of a pattern where major tech companies systematically source books to train their language models.

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