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AI firm Anthropic’s scanning initiative is covert book burning for the modern age

AI firm Anthropic’s scanning initiative is covert book burning for the modern age

Under the guise of ‘Project Panama’, AI company Anthropic is pirating and physically destroying books with hydraulic presses and shredders to feed its large language model, Claude. On the internet, users are drawing on dystopian literature and history to hold them to account.