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Anthropic destroyed millions of print books to build its AI models
(arstechnica.com)
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this post was submitted on 26 Jun 2025
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Copyright law doesn't allow them to sell the books. It's almost certainly a violation to scan books for their content and then sell them.
Copyright law also doesn’t allow them to download the entirety of a piracy database of books. But here we are, they clearly don’t care about copyright law.
They didn't care at first. The only reason they began destructively scanning books is because they started to care about copyright law: