VC claims Anthropic destroys books for LLM training, calls it 'largest knowledge loss since dark ages'

StewartalsopIII · x · 2026-09-14

Investor Stewart Alsop III argues a chain of claims: Anthropic scans and destroys physical books to train its LLMs; the models are trained not to reproduce direct quotes for copyright reasons; therefore millions of books become effectively lost to civilization. He calls it the largest loss of knowledge since the dark ages. This is a contested opinion rather than confirmed fact, but it hits the sensitive intersection of training-data copyright and knowledge preservation.

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VC claims Anthropic destroys books for LLM training, calls it 'largest knowledge loss since dark ages'

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