Anthropic destroyed millions of print books to build its AI models
Anthropic's AI Book Digitization Practices Explained
Key Takeaways
Destructive digitization: Anthropic destroyed millions of purchased books to create training data for Claude AI .
Fair use victory: A federal judge ruled book scanning for AI training was legally transformative if books were legally acquired .
Piracy penalties pending: Anthropic faces a December trial for using 7+ million pirated books in its…
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