Amazon Buys Rare Books in Bulk, Cuts Bindings and Scans Pages at Las Vegas AI Training Facility
Summary
404 Media placed an AirTag in a box of roughly 1,000 rare books and traced it from California through Milwaukee, a Kenosha warehouse, and a Colorado truck stop to Amazon's LAS8 facility in Las Vegas, where the VGT3 operation is dedicated to book scanning. Employees say the workflow is straightforward: workers cut off spines and scan barcodes and pages to digitize the contents. Amazon confirmed it 'purchases books through commercial channels to help develop and improve the products and services our customers use' but declined to discuss methods or scale.
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Emanuel Maiberg @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social
We put a tracking device in a shipment of rare books acquired by an anonymous buyer. It ended up at an Amazon facility where the company scans books for training data and destroys them in the process: www.404media.co/we-…
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