An investigative report from 404 Media found that Amazon operates a Las Vegas facility, known as VGT3, where workers slice the bindings off rare books, scan the loose pages, and recycle the shredded r…
An anonymous Amazon employee at the VGT3 warehouse in Las Vegas, Nevada, described how the facility destructively scans books for AI training data, cutting off spines and discarding loose pages into m…
Investigative journalists from 404 Media hid an AirTag in a batch of rare books sold to Amazon, tracking the shipment to VGT3, an Amazon AI training facility in Las Vegas, where books are destroyed af…
A $29 Apple AirTag hidden inside a rare book tracked a shipment to an Amazon warehouse in Las Vegas, where employees cut off spines and scan pages for AI training data, contradicting Amazon's earlier …
An investigation by 404 Media tracked a shipment of hard-to-find books to an Amazon facility in Las Vegas, where workers allegedly cut bindings and scanned pages, destroying the books. Amazon stated i…
Amazon's VGT3 facility is destructively scanning large volumes of physical books for AI training, according to workers. The company purchases books in bulk orders of around 1,000 volumes to bypass dig…
An Apple AirTag hidden inside a book from a large used-book order led 404 Media to an Amazon facility in Las Vegas that employees described as a site for scanning printed books into AI training data. …
Amazon has been caught scanning and destroying rare books to train its AI models, according to an investigation by 404 Media. A bookseller placed an Apple AirTag in a book ordered anonymously via Bibl…
Amazon is buying large quantities of printed books, scanning them for AI training data, and destroying the books in the process, according to a 404 Media investigation that tracked a rare book to an A…
Amazon is destroying rare books to train its AI models, according to a 404 Media investigation that tracked a rare book to Amazon's VGT3 facility in Las Vegas. Amazon confirmed it purchases books thro…
An investigation by 404 Media, which placed an AirTag inside a shipment of rare books, found that Amazon buys printed books in bulk, scans them for AI training data, and destroys them at a Las Vegas w…
A 404 Media investigation tracked a rare book with an Apple AirTag and found it ended at an Amazon warehouse in Las Vegas, Nevada, where employees cut bindings off books to scan them for AI training d…