Anthropic piracy allegation resurfaces over Project Panama and 7 million books
rickasaurus · x · 2026-07-28
A quoted thread alleges that Anthropic’s internal Project Panama document showed the company did not want its book-collection plan to become public.
The claim says Anthropic concluded books were the cheapest path to a world-class model, then first chose piracy and downloaded more than 7 million books from online libraries such as Libgen, despite having legal ways to buy them. The thread frames this as both an ethics and business controversy around Dario Amodei and Anthropic’s training-data strategy.
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