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Why Anthropic is destroying books #Vergecast
The Verge· 2026-02-03 19:01
Project Panama was something that Anthropic started in late 2023 or early 2024 with the goal to quote destructively scan all the books in the world. >> Such a brutal sentence. >> It's Yeah, it's really unfortunate.It sounds like something a Bond villain would set out to do. >> Um they didn't actually want to destroy all the physical books in the world. Um just one just one copy one copy of each.Um sure it's more efficient to slice the spines off and scan them. But the point was that they wanted to digitize ...