Mary Roeloffs is a Forbes breaking news reporter covering pop culture. Documents made public in a lawsuit from authors against Anthropic earlier this year revealed the company had bought millions of ...

Project Panama — Anthropic's covert 2024 operation that reportedly bought, scanned and destroyed millions of books to train its Claude chatbot, leaving no physical copies behind. Image AI generated ...

AI companies purchasing large quantities of used books for scanning Securing original text materials for LLM training Anthropic launches 'Project Panama' Last May, a peculiar order arrived at ...

In early 2024, executives at artificial intelligence start-up Anthropic ramped up an ambitious project they sought to keep quiet. “Project Panama is our effort to destructively scan all the books in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NurPhoto, via Getty Images and kb group via Canva — Snopes illustration A review of internal documents at Anthropic, one of the ...

Book burning. Book pulping. Book vandalising. It’s all the fashion and, dare one say it, the rage. Libraries are carting them off to the dump. Repositories of memory are being shredded in favour of ...

Charlie Becker’s family bookstore in Houston has been connecting people with literature for more than 30 years. Becker said the family has “seen a lot of changes” since his dad opened the store for ...

ANAHEIM, Calif. — It’s evening in Frankfurt, Germany, when Scott Brown picks up the phone. The Downtown Brown Books bookseller interrupted his vacation to discuss the use of books to train AI models — ...

The AI company apparently found destructively scanning ‘all the books in the world’ easier than dealing with copyright in its quest for training data ...