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90. Anthropic is Destroying Rare Books to Train Their AI. Here’s How to Stop Them.
Recent X posts are bringing awareness to Anthropic’s secret plan to dismantle millions of rare books in order to scan them into their LLMs. According to tech journalist Ole Lehmann, the process looks something like this:
Since access to physical books can’t be logged by copyright holders, Anthropic has decided to purchase millions of used books and scan them into their private servers to create a high-quality knowledge base for its LLMs—without paying a penny in royalties or licensing fees.
They needed to work fast without getting caught. They deployed swarms of used-book buyers to snap up…
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