Inside an AI Start-up’s Plan to Scan and Dispose of Millions of Books

Inside an AI start-up’s plan to scan and dispose of millions of books

Court filings reveal how AI companies raced to obtain more books to feed chatbots, including by buying, scanning and disposing of millions of titles.

Anthropic’s ‘secret plan’ to ‘destructively scan all the books in the world' revealed by unredacted files

A number of newly unredacted (and partially redacted) documents from the Anthropic case have shed light on how executives at the tech giant ramped up plans in early 2024 to scan “all the books in the world” to teach their AI tool “how to write well”.