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Anthropic destroyed millions of books for AI training

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Anthropic's "Project Panama" involved the acquisition, scanning, and destruction of between 500,000 and 2 million books over six months. This initiative was undertaken to train the company's machine-learning algorithms, aiming to enable them to process information and generate text in a manner similar to human cognition. AI

IMPACT This method of data acquisition for AI training raises ethical questions about resource utilization and preservation.

RANK_REASON The item describes a research project involving data acquisition and processing for AI training. [lever_c_demoted from research: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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Anthropic destroyed millions of books for AI training

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  1. Mastodon — fosstodon.org TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    # AI I just learned about Anthropic's Project Panama. Really appalling "In this project, the company purchased, scanned, and then physically destroyed between 5

    # AI I just learned about Anthropic's Project Panama. Really appalling "In this project, the company purchased, scanned, and then physically destroyed between 500,000 and 2 million books over a six‑month period to train its machine‑learning algorithms to think and write more like…

    LINKS idnfinancials.com/…/project-panama-anthro…

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