Why is Anthropic destroying books? | Kathryn James
The AI company apparently found destructively scanning ‘all the books in the world’ easier than dealing with copyright in its quest for training data Should we destroy all the books in the world? An answer to this question can be found in the court documents of Bartz v Anthropic PBC. The northern California district court case, decided in late July this year, highlighted the improbably named…
Anthropic, an AI company, is reportedly engaging in a controversial project called "Project Panama," which involves destructively scanning and using all the books in the world as training data for its large language model Claude. This initiative has raised concerns about copyright issues and the ethical implications of such an extensive data collection effort.
The court documents from the Bartz v Anthropic PBC case reveal that Anthropic found it easier to scan all the books in the world for training data rather than dealing with the complexities of copyright clearance.
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