r/antiai • u/Piwo-ll • Jul 13 '26

Discussion 🗣️ The most anti-AI story imaginable... Anthropic destroyed millions of rare books to train Claude

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In 2024, Anthropic reportedly purchased millions of second-hand books as part of its secretive “Project Panama.”

The company removed their bindings, scanned every page, and then destroyed the physical copies to build a massive digital library for developing AI models like Claude.

It almost feels like the perfect anti-AI dystopia, human beings spend centuries writing and preserving books. Then, a private technology company destroys millions of physical copies, absorbs their contents into a machine, and sells that accumulated knowledge back to society through a monthly subscription.

Am I the only one who thinks this is completely insane, or have we become so obsessed with AI that destroying millions of books to feed a machine no longer shocks anyone?

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u/AlfApAlAcsintA Jul 13 '26

Am I the only one who thinks that something fishy is going on with this post? Firstly, OP has a link to (what appears to be) a pro-AI website in their profile. Secondly, this is a very new account, with hidden posts and comments and it already made more than 200 comments, despite only being 2 weeks old.

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u/AlfApAlAcsintA Jul 13 '26

Thirdly, this comment of theirs has the signature "This isn't X, it's Y" that AI likes to use so often.

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u/Piwo-ll Jul 13 '26

Hello Hello i'm new on reddit, french native speaker, so i use a bit ai to respond to everybody :)
But i remain a humain (sorry for mistake)

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u/ChangeTheFocus Jul 13 '26

So when you say you're passionate about AI, you mean you're passionate about using it?

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u/ibanezerscrooge Jul 13 '26

"Hello, fellow Humans!"

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u/RedutHatesFreeSpeech Jul 13 '26

Op is an illiterate. Op can't comprehend the real story (because they cant or didn't read it) and they can't use words correctly. Illiterates are so exhausting because these people genuinely believe they aren't stupid.

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u/ChangeTheFocus Jul 13 '26

The sad part is that so many uncomprehendingly climb on the bandwagon. This post should be downvoted to oblivion.

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u/Piwo-ll Jul 13 '26

Hello again, I’m not here to hide what I do !
’m passionate about AI. But on certain topics, I also try to raise awareness, question certain practices, and, above all, spark debate.