Monday, August 17, 2026

Anthropic Destroyed 2 Million Books 😳


Anthropic Destroyed 2 Million Books 😳

Julia McCoy

Aug 13, 2026  Future of AI: AGI and Superintelligence

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Anthropic bought millions of physical books, sliced the spines off with a hydraulic machine, scanned the pages, and threw the originals away — to train Claude.

Court documents revealed an internal effort called *Project Panama*, and a $1.5 billion copyright settlement is now paying authors about $3,000 per book. A judge ruled the destruction fair use.


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