Court documents reveal Anthropic destroyed up to 2 million books in AI training project
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Sahrudin Fiqri M, Lisa Monica
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Summary
Newly unsealed court documents reveal that Anthropic ran a clandestine operation called "Project Panama," where the company purchased, scanned, and physically destroyed between 500,000 and 2 million books over six months to train its AI models. The revelation highlights controversial practices in AI development regarding data sourcing and intellectual property.
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the company purchased, scanned, and then physically destroyed between 500,000 and 2 million books over a six‑month period to train its machine‑learning algorithms to think and write more like humans
A shocking revelation about the darker side of artificial‑intelligence development has emerged through newly unsealed court documents
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