AirTag Tracks Rare Books to Amazon Las Vegas Facility
404 Media tracked rare books with an AirTag to Amazon's VGT3 facility in Las Vegas.
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Reporters placed a tracking device inside a rare book shipment to identify the buyer. The device led to Amazon's VGT3 facility in Las Vegas. The 404 Media article states that Amazon scans and destroys books at the site. Multiple posts on X reference the same investigation and the facility's reported activities. The original bookseller had suspected bulk purchases for AI data use.
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Joseph Cox@josephfcoxNew: we solved which AI company is buying massive shipments of rare books, scanning and destroying them to train AI. We put an Apple AirTag in a rare book, followed it. It ended up at an Amazon facility. Its logo is a dinosaur ripping through a book…
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“P “paula”@paularamblesvery disappointed to learn that VGT does NOT stand for Very Greedy Tokenizer (it is instead just the airport code for North Las Vegas) https://twitter.com/jason_koebler/status/2089351148478074916
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MI Michael@TheMG3DA company that used to only sell books is now destroying them https://twitter.com/intcyberdigest/status/2089373881773498747
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JB Julia Black@mjnblackno one is doing it like @404mediaco https://twitter.com/jason_koebler/status/2089351148478074916
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NT neil turkewitz@neilturkewitz@jason_koebler @bigblackjacobin You folks over at @404mediaco are amazing…a reminder that journalism is not dead, just ailing.
DR Drizzydru2@drizzydru2@MarikoSanogo @jason_koebler It’s right there in the title retard. “Rare used book store