Amazon Facilities Reportedly Dismantling Rare Books for AI Training Data

By Joe Foley · Creative Bloq · 2026-08-19

Amazon Facilities Reportedly Dismantling Rare Books for AI Training Data

Creative Bloq reports that Amazon is allegedly destroying physical books at a Las Vegas warehouse to accelerate the ingestion of text into its artificial intelligence models. Workers at the VGT3 facility reportedly slice off the bindings of rare and old volumes to streamline the

Creative Bloq reports that Amazon is allegedly destroying physical books at a Las Vegas warehouse to accelerate the ingestion of text into its artificial intelligence models. Workers at the VGT3 facility reportedly slice off the bindings of rare and old volumes to streamline the