How a journalist used an AirTag to track a book being pulped by A.I giants | The Big Tech Show @independent_ie
How a journalist used an AirTag to track a book being pulped by A.I giants | The Big Tech Show @independent_ie
Uploaded September 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
On this episode of The Big Tech Show, Adrian Weckler is joined by Emanuel Maiberg, journalist and co founder of 404 Media, to explore how AI companies are buying up old and rare books for training data.

For more, visit https://www.independent.ie/.

00:00 - 00:45 Preview
00:45 - 06:44 AI Giants' Destructive Book Scanning Practices
06:44 - 09:41 Philosophical Debate on Losing Cultural History to AI
09:41 - 15:05 How AirTag Tracked Books to an Amazon Warehouse
15:05 - 18:47 AI's Role in the Routine Destruction of Books
18:47 - 22:12 How AI Companies Are Reshaping the Book Selling Industry
22:12 - 22:32 Episode Break

#AIBook #Books #AI #Tech
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