Anthropic destroyed millions of print books to build its AI models

Anthropic destroyed millions of print books to build its AI models

Company hired Google’s book-scanning chief to cut up and digitize “all the books in the world.”…

Anthropic destroyed millions of print books to build its AI models - WorldNL Magazine

But if you're not intimately familiar with the AI industry and copyright, you might wonder: Why would a company spend millions of dollars on books to destroy them? Behind these odd legal maneuvers lies a more fundamental driver: the AI industry's insatiable hunger for high-quality text. The race for high-quality training data To understand why Anthropic would want to scan millions of books, it's important to know that AI researchers build large …