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How Anthropic Built Claude: Buy Books, Slice Spines, Scan Pages, Recycle the Remains


Court documents unsealed last week in a copyright lawsuit against Anthropic reveal that the AI company ran an operation called "Project Panama" to buy millions of physical books, slice off their spines, scan the pages to train its Claude chatbot, and then send the remains to recycling companies. T...

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