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SCOOP: 404 Media placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it. What did we find? It ended up at an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books. Yes. This is literally the logo outside the Amazon warehouse door. Read now:

We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility 404media.co

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• 404 Media hid an Apple AirTag in a roughly 1,000-book order sold on Biblio and followed it to an Amazon warehouse in Las Vegas.
• The shipment terminated at Amazon's LAS8 site at 5801 Nicco Way, home to a team called VGT3 whose logo is a Tyrannosaurus rex clutching an open book.
• Amazon told the outlet it 'purchases books through commercial channels'; the company classes its Nova family of models as 'frontier.'

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Ebay, Amazon, and Etsy are unable to stop the flood of AI-generated seed scams.

Scammers Sell Seeds for Exotic AI-Generated Flowers That Don’t Exist 404media.co

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• Sellers on eBay, Amazon and Etsy are listing seeds for plants that do not exist, advertised with AI-generated images of impossible flowers.
• Before one eBay seller was banned, rainbow-colored rose seeds sold 37,271 times; fake teddy bear sunflower seeds sold 1,301 times.
• eBay said it has policies and controls and uses AI-supported monitoring; Amazon and Etsy did not respond to 404 Media's request for comment.

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