Court documents reveal Anthropic destroyed millions of print books to train its Claude AI model
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Benj Edwards
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Court documents reveal that AI company Anthropic physically destroyed millions of print books by cutting them from their bindings and scanning them into digital files to train its Claude AI model. The company hired Google's former book-scanning chief with the goal of digitizing "all the books in the world." The details emerged from a copyright ruling on fair use, highlighting the controversial practice of destroying physical books solely for AI training purposes.
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bskyCourt documents reveal Anthropic destroyed millions of print books to train its Claude AI modelarstechnica.comKey quotes
· 3 pulledAnthropic spent millions of dollars physically scanning print books to build Claude, an AI assistant similar to ChatGPT.
The company cut millions of print books from their bindings, scanned them into digital files, and threw away the originals solely for the purpose of training AI.
Company hired Google's book-scanning chief to cut up and digitize 'all the books in the world.'
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