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Craig Saueurs

Project Panama: How Anthropic secretly destroyed millions of books to train its AI

It sounds like a Ray Bradbury story come to life.

Somewhere in America’s sprawl of warehouses, book spines were sliced by machines like cuts of salami. Scanners then processed their contents in bulk. Within milliseconds, work that may have taken humans years to produce was uploaded into the digital ether, and later used to train AI models to replicate the voice and structure of our languages.

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