Via @KateriSeraphina
When a surprising order of 1,000 ancient books lands on the desk of a specialized bookseller, the bewilderment is total. The mysterious buyer has no interest in the value of the volumes, nor in their rarity, nor even in their content: he just wants paper, in industrial quantities. Sensing a shady deal, the bookseller teams up with journalists from 404 Media and secretly slips a small Apple AirTag into one of the boxes. But no one yet knew that this simple GPS tracker would uncover one of the darkest secrets of modern technology.
What they were about to discover exceeded their worst nightmares.
For days, the journalists tracked the digital signal of the box across the entire country. From city to city, the tracker finally came to a stop in front of a massive, anonymous Amazon warehouse, right in the Nevada desert, in Las Vegas.
By sneaking into the behind-the-scenes of this heavily guarded building, the team uncovered a true factory of literary slaughter.
In this warehouse, tons of books are lined up on industrial conveyor belts. The sight is of an unheard-of violence for book lovers: massive machines cut the bindings in assembly-line fashion, tear off the covers, and separate the pages by the thousands.
The sheets are immediately scanned at high speed.
The original texts are sent to the shredder.
The books are reduced to dust.
Once the pages are scanned and destroyed, the adventure of these books ends there, permanently erased from physical reality.
Questioned about this industrial practice, the giant Amazon finally confirmed the terrifying truth: the company buys books in bulk to feed their data to its artificial intelligence algorithms, destroying the physical work right after digitization.
Buy. Tear. Scan. Feed the machine. Incinerate the evidence.
Thanks to the curiosity of a bookseller and a small tracker hidden at the bottom of a box, the veil has been lifted on how tech giants plunder human heritage to build their virtual world.
We are often told that technological progress is there to preserve our memory and make our lives easier. But this story brutally reminds us that in this mad race toward the future, some are ready to sacrifice the beauty of the past and the soul of objects to feed heartless machines.
A world that burns its books to feed robots may have gained speed, but it has definitively lost its humanity.
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