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AI Companies Are Buying Rare Books Only To Destroy Them - Here's Why

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Anthropic's Project Panama solely exists to "destructively scan all the books in the world" to train its Claude LLM, and it's goal is every book on the planet.
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Buying rare books for the purpose of destroying them is the project of some artificial intelligence companies. On the program, scan books page after page, to train AI models.

Der Beitrag Bücherverscannung: Mysterious AI Orders privatisieren Wissen erschien zuerst im Online-Magazin BASIC thinking. Über unseren Newsletter UPDATE stellst Du jeder Morgen best informiert in den Tag. AI companies like Anthropic buy through intermediate dealers massive books from antiquarians. In Germany alone it is estimated that there are 700,000 titles. The works are scanned, used as training data for chatbots and then partly disposed of…

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Antiquarians report on eye-catching orders from abroad, numerous videos on the topic are circulating on the net and cause indignation. What is behind it?

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finanzen100.de broke the news on Monday, August 17, 2026.
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