Why is Anthropic destroying books? | Kathryn James

The Guardian
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Anthropic's Project Panama involved destructively scanning all books worldwide to train its Claude language model, avoiding copyright permissions. The company initially used pirated books but shifted methods due to legal concerns, leading to a $1.5bn settlement with authors. A court ruled that training on proprietary material doesn't infringe copyright.

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