AI News AirTag Investigation Tracks Rare Book Shipment to Amazon Facility Scanning Books for AI Training

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https://www.ghacks.net/2026/08/21/airtag-investigation-tracks-rare-book-shipment-to-amazon-facility-scanning-books-for-ai-training/

A $29 Apple AirTag hidden inside a rare book helped track a shipment to an Amazon warehouse in Las Vegas, where employees take apart books and scan their pages for AI training data.

This finding contradicts an earlier Amazon statement denying that it destroyed books during scanning. Reporter Emanuel Maiberg placed the AirTag in one book from an order of about 1,000 volumes purchased through Biblio, a marketplace that keeps buyers anonymous.

Amazon's public response avoided any reference to artificial intelligence.