Anthropic's Project Panama: buying and shredding books for training data
新智元 · wechat · 2026-08-23
Investigations reveal Anthropic's "Project Panama," buying millions of physical books to shred and scan for clean human data. A judge ruled one-to-one digitization fair use, but prior piracy led to a $15B settlement. The surge in used book orders raises concerns about the destruction of rare copies.
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