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Anthropic destroyed millions of print books to build its AI models - Ars Technica

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Company hired Google's book-scanning chief to cut up and digitize "all the books in the world."

Text settings Story text Size Small Standard Large Width * Standard Wide Links Standard Orange * Subscribers only Learn more Minimize to nav On Monday, court documents revealed that AI company Anthropic spent millions of dollars physically scanning print books to build Claude , an AI assistant similar to ChatGPT . In the process, the company cut millions of print books from their bindings, scanned them into digital files, and threw away the originals solely for the purpose of training AI—details buried in a copyright ruling on fair use whose broader fair use implications we reported yesterday.

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