A 404 Media investigation used an AirTag hidden inside a shipment of roughly 1,000 books to trace the batch to Amazon’s LAS8／VGT3 facility in Las Vegas, where employees described cutting apart and scanning physical books. Amazon has not confirmed that the resulting scans are used to train a specific AI model, but the investigation raises broader questions about destructive book scanning, AI training data supply chains, copyright, preservation, and how creators can control publicly available content.