Airtag Trail Suggests Amazon Destroys Rare Books for AI Training
A 404 Media investigation, aided by an Airtag placed in a rare book, traces bulk orders of rare volumes to an Amazon AI training facility in Las Vegas where staff reportedly tear books from their spines to scan pages for frontier AI models; Amazon says it buys books to develop products, but critics warn that destroying rare texts raises ethical concerns and could erode access to valuable literature.