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

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Anthropic AI book burning. Photo by BeInCrypto Anthropic bought millions of used books, sliced off the covers, and scanned every ...

404, a media company founded by tech journalists, on Monday published the results of an investigation in which an unnamed rare books seller, who’d received an order for almost 1,000 physical copies, ...

In early 2024, executives at artificial intelligence start-up Anthropic ramped up an ambitious project they sought to keep quiet. “Project Panama is our effort to destructively scan all the books in ...

Tracking devices in book shipments reportedly led to an Amazon facility in Las Vegas emblazoned with a book-hungry dinosaur.

AI companies purchasing large quantities of used books for scanning Securing original text materials for LLM training Anthropic launches 'Project Panama' Last May, a peculiar order arrived at ...

A bookseller estimates that the number of books being destroyed to train AI models is far higher than what’s being reported — somewhere in the tens of millions.

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 ...

Book burning. Book pulping. Book vandalising. It’s all the fashion and, dare one say it, the rage. Libraries are carting them off to the dump. Repositories of memory are being shredded in favour of ...

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 ...