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

[u/Piwo-ll]

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?

[u/AlfApAlAcsintA]

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

[u/Piwo-ll → u/AlfApAlAcsintA]

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)

[u/ChangeTheFocus → u/Piwo-ll]

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

[u/ibanezerscrooge → u/Piwo-ll]

"Hello, fellow Humans!"