Anthropic bought rare books, sliced off their spines, and shredded the originals to train Claude
Court documents from the settled copyright lawsuit against Anthropic reveal that the company purchased physical books in bulk, used hydraulic cutting machines to remove their spines, scanned the pages with industrial equipment, and then destroyed the original copies. The practice, internally called Project Panama, targeted rare and out-of-print titles, including editions with few surviving copies. What the documents show According to reporting by Futurism and 404 Media, Anthropic hired Tom Tu
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