dv said:

SCIENCE said:

dv said:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/01/27/anthropic-ai-scan-destroy-books/

Inside an AI start-up’s plan to scan and dispose of millions of books
Court filings reveal how AI companies raced to obtain more books to feed chatbots, including by buying, scanning and disposing of millions of titles.

Within about a year, according to the filings, the company had spent tens of millions of dollars to acquire and slice the spines off millions of books, before scanning their pages to feed more knowledge into the AI models behind products such as its popular chatbot, Claude.

oh we read about that, apparently the good news is that they have to destroy the books for it to be transfer and not copy and therefore not a violation of copyright

Funny what passes for good news these days

yes we apologise for the sarcyntironastical take

it appears the process serves multiple excellent functions

• it trains their model
• it defends copyright violation
• it protects rare or unique books from being destroyed in the future or the information contained in them from being accessible to competitors