Court filings reveal Anthropic's secret plan to destructively scan millions of books for AI training
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Aaron Schaffer, Will Oremus, Nitasha Tiku
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Court filings reveal that AI startup Anthropic secretly launched "Project Panama" in early 2024, a plan to destructively scan all books in the world by buying, scanning, and disposing of millions of titles to feed their AI chatbots. The project was kept quiet to avoid public knowledge of their efforts.
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bskyCourt filings reveal Anthropic's secret plan to destructively scan millions of books for AI trainingwashingtonpost.comKey quotes
· 2 pulledProject Panama is our effort to destructively scan all the books in the world
We don't want it to be known that we are working on this.
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