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404Media investigation tracking a shipment of rare books to an Amazon AI training facility where books are scanned and destroyed.
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404Media is an independent technology journalism outlet. This entry points to their August 2026 investigation: 'We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility' — the authors placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, finding an Amazon facility where books are scanned and destroyed for AI training.
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