Inside the Amazon warehouse destroying books for AI
an amazon employee confirmed the company destructively scans books at its vgt3 warehouse to create ai training data, raising questions about copyright and physical media preservation.
an anonymous amazon employee verified that the company’s vgt3 warehouse in las vegas destructively scans books to generate training data for ai models. workers remove book spines, scan loose pages, and pulp the materials, processing rare texts, university library liquidations, and government documents. this operational revelation links the destruction of physical media directly to the data supply chains of major ai labs.