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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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They could have just bought the ebooks…
Nope. Ebooks are a license, so the First Sale Doctrine does not apply. Buying ebooks is nearly useless, legally.
I would hazard a guess that the eBook did not exist for the physical books they bought. Still, that doesn't excuse their actions, nor the bigger issues with training LLMs