Anthropic destroyed millions of print books to build its AI models (arstechnica.com)

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[-] yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 16 hours ago

They didn't care at first. The only reason they began destructively scanning books is because they started to care about copyright law:

Anthropic first chose to amass digitized versions of pirated books to avoid what CEO Dario Amodei called "legal/practice/business slog"—the complex licensing negotiations with publishers. But by 2024, Anthropic had become "not so gung ho about" using pirated ebooks "for legal reasons" and needed a safer source.

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