Investor claims Anthropic destroyed millions of books to train LLMs

Investor Stewart Alsop III controversially claimed Anthropic scanned and destroyed millions of physical books to train its LLMs while preventing the models from reproducing original quotes, resulting in the books' effective loss. He acknowledged he might be wrong but stood by his criticism.

2026-09-14 ~ 2026-09-14 · 3 related posts

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