Hidden AirTag appears to confirm suspicions about illicit AI book scanning

AirTag confirms Amazon is destroying books to train AIBooksellers have spent the past year fielding strange, oversized orders for used books with no apparent connection between titles and no obvious buyer behind them.Many suspected the orders were coming from AI companies…

Suspicious bulk orders of used books have led many booksellers to believe they are being purchased on behalf of AI companies so that they can be scanned and used as training material without author consent or payment. An AirTag hidden inside a rare book sold as part of a bulk…