The AI company apparently found destructively scanning ‘all the books in the world’ easier than dealing with copyright in its quest for training data ...

Project Panama — Anthropic's covert 2024 operation that reportedly bought, scanned and destroyed millions of books to train its Claude chatbot, leaving no physical copies behind. Image AI generated ...

For the past year or so, booksellers have suspected that AI firms are buying up huge lots of rare books, then destroying them after scanning them to train AI. But this was hard to prove until now, as ...

A $29 Apple AirTag, hidden inside a single rare book, has led an investigation to an Amazon warehouse in Las Vegas where employees dismantle books and scan their pages to generate data for AI training ...

Amazon is reportedly buying massive quantities of rare books, scanning their pages to train its AI models and destroying the tomes in the process — joining Anthropic, Meta and other tech giants in ...

A volunteer for Anna's Archive is calling for volunteers to scan and upload books to the shadow library to help preserve human knowledge for the public. The move comes as more AI companies buy, scan, ...