The Paper Trail of Progress: What Anthropic's Book Slaughter Reveals About AI's True Cost Millions of physical books are reportedly being destroyed by Anthropic, a prominent AI company, as part of its training data for machine learning models.
This disturbing trend raises important questions about the ethics of data acquisition in AI research and the true cost of our accelerating digital age.
Anthropic's "Project Panama" involves acquiring vast quantities of printed books, cutting off their spines to feed them into high speed scanners, and then disposing of the originals.