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An investigation traces a rare book to Amazon’s Las Vegas AI training facility where staff reportedly dismantle and scan volumes to train AI models, prompting concerns that irreplaceable copies could be destroyed and copyright issues may arise, even as Amazon says purchases are used to improve products.
A 404 Media investigation tracked a shipment of a scarce, pre-ISBN book to Amazon’s LAS8 facility in Las Vegas and uncovered a separate operation, VGT3, where workers cut spines and scan pages—likely to train AI models—tracked by an AirTag inserted into the book. Amazon says it buys books to develop its products, but hasn’t confirmed the use, and the piece places the finding in a broader history of investigative tracking and a 2025 fair-use ruling on digitizing bound volumes.