我们追踪了一批珍本图书，它们最终抵达亚马逊 AI 训练设施
英文标题：We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility
404 Media 通过在一册图书中放置 Apple AirTag，追踪了一笔约 1,000 册图书的大额订单的去向。该订单最终被送往拉斯维加斯东北部的亚马逊 LAS8 设施内、名为 VGT3 的区域。亚马逊员工在网络论坛上的讨论证实，VGT3 会以破坏性方式扫描大量图书。这一调查为长期存在的猜测提供了实证线索：匿名、大批量且对价格不敏感的购书订单，可能与用于 AI 训练的数据采集有关。
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2026年8月17日 - Link Blog
我们追踪了一批珍本图书，它们最终抵达亚马逊 AI 训练设施。这是 404 Media 一篇出色的调查报道。一段时间以来，陆续有报道称，图书经销商收到来自匿名客户的大批量图书订单，这些客户似乎对价格并不敏感；人们普遍怀疑，这些订单来自希望扫描图书以用于 AI 训练的公司（参见我此前关于 Anthropic 在 2025 年 6 月扫描图书的报道）。
404 Media 利用 AirTag 进行了调查！
7 月，一名图书卖家告诉我，他们通过这些交易平台之一 Biblio 收到了一笔非常大的订单，约有 1,000 册图书。卖家同意将 404 Media 提供的一枚 Apple AirTag 放进该订单中的一本书里，以便我们查看这本书会被送往何处。进一步说，也可以借此确定是哪家公司——无论是 AI 公司还是其他公司——发起了这笔庞大的订单。
这本书最终被送至拉斯维加斯东北部的 LAS8 亚马逊设施内 VGT3 区域；该区域入口处挂着一个颇为直白的标志：一只拿着书的恐龙！
图片来源：404 Media
亚马逊员工在网络论坛上的讨论证实，VGT3 会以破坏性方式扫描大量图书。
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17th August 2026 - Link Blog
We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility. Excellent piece of reporting from 404 Media. For a while now there have been stories of book dealers receiving orders for large volumes of books from apparently price-insensitive anonymous customers, widely suspected to be companies looking to scan them for AI training (see my previous coverage of Anthropic's book scanning from June 2025.)
404 Media investigated with an AirTag!
In July, one bookseller told me they received a very large order of around 1,000 books on Biblio, one of these marketplaces. The seller agreed to put an Apple AirTag provided by 404 Media in one of the books included in this order so we could see where the book was going. And by extension, which company, AI or otherwise, was behind this massive order.
The book ended up delivered to the VGT3 corner of the LAS8 Amazon facility in the north east of Las Vegas, where the entrance carried this on-the-nose logo of a dinosaur with a book!
Photo credit: 404 Media
Online forum discussions between Amazon workers confirmed that VGT3 destructively scans large volumes of books.