The AI company Anthropic purchased millions of printed books in bulk, shredded them, and scanned the content to train its AI models. The physical books were then discarded.
The project, known internally as ”Project Panama,” aimed to build a private digital library for, among other things, the chatbot Claude, which is owned by Anthropic’s AI. The books were purchased primarily from used bookstores and resellers in large batches. The bindings were removed, the pages were cut apart, scanned into searchable PDF files, and the original paper copies were destroyed.
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