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Elton Jones

Millions of books are reportedly being slaughtered to train AI — here’s what Anthropic told Tom's Guide

CEO of Anthropic Dario Amodei.

Anthropic (the company behind the Claude AI tool) has reportedly dismantled classic physical literature in an effort to make the scanning process go faster in a bid to further train their AI models on their material. Here’s an explainer on why and how this trend has come to fruition.

Why and how this trend is happening

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