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Anthropic's AI training involves destroying millions of books

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Anthropic is reportedly destroying millions of books as part of its "Project Panama" initiative to scan them for AI model training. This practice has raised concerns, particularly regarding the potential destruction of rare books and religious texts. The company has not yet publicly addressed the controversy surrounding its book-scanning methods. AI

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Anthropic's AI training involves destroying millions of books

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  1. r/Anthropic TIER_1 English(EN) · /u/ZealousidealWafer383 ·

    Destruction of books? Project Panama.

    <!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>I mean, I’m genuinely surprised I haven’t found this topic here yet. Let’s talk about it<br /> Anthropic destroyed millions of books in order to scan them to train the model. I don’t know which part of this sentence sounds weird, like… AI model n…

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