Anthropic destroyed millions of print books to build its AI models

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JohnFen · 1m ago

> In the process, the company cut millions of print books from their bindings, scanned them into digital files, and threw away the originals solely for the purpose of training AI

Oh boy. The more I learn about how genAI companies work, the more detestable they appear to be.

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Anthropic destroyed millions of print books to build its AI models

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