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17 Aug 2026, 11:21 PM	Simon Willison	6.5	We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility 404 Media used an AirTag hidden in a ~1,000-book order placed by an anonymous, price-insensitive buyer on Biblio to trace where bulk rare books are going. The shipment ended at Amazon's LAS8 facility in northeast Las Vegas, specifically the VGT3 section, where worker forum discussions confirm large volumes of books are destructively scanned—strongly suggesting Amazon is scanning books for AI training data. Why: This is concrete evidence of the physical supply chain behind AI training data collection: companies are buying books in bulk and destroying them to scan content. If you ship AI products, this is relevant to copyright and licensing risk discussions—your models may be trained on data sourced through channels that could attract future litigation or regulatory action, especially as jurisdictions tighten training-data provenance rules. training-data ai-ethics amazon journalism copyright

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17 Aug 2026, 11:21 PM

Simon Willison

6.5

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

404 Media used an AirTag hidden in a ~1,000-book order placed by an anonymous, price-insensitive buyer on Biblio to trace where bulk rare books are going. The shipment ended at Amazon's LAS8 facility in northeast Las Vegas, specifically the VGT3 section, where worker forum discussions confirm large volumes of books are destructively scanned—strongly suggesting Amazon is scanning books for AI training data.

Why: This is concrete evidence of the physical supply chain behind AI training data collection: companies are buying books in bulk and destroying them to scan content. If you ship AI products, this is relevant to copyright and licensing risk discussions—your models may be trained on data sourced through channels that could attract future litigation or regulatory action, especially as jurisdictions tighten training-data provenance rules.