How an AirTag planted by a reporter led to a secret Amazon site where old books are cut apart and scanned

The reporting tool in question. (BigStock Photo / hadrian) Amazon is reportedly cutting the spines off old books and scanning the pages at a Las Vegas facility, presumably to train AI models on text that exists almost nowhere else. The company won’t confirm that’s the reason. It gave us the same statement it provided to 404 Media, which broke the...