OPINION: Amazon's Vegas book guillotine is what peak AI looks like
Amazon operates an industrial facility near the Las Vegas Strip where books are destroyed. The author describes the site as a location where books go to die, linking the process to the current state of artificial intelligence. The facility is situated just miles from the city's main entertainment district.
Just miles from the neon artifice of the Las Vegas Strip — a destination built on the promise of infinite entertainment — lies an industrial purgatory where books go to die.
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