Anthropic’s Hidden Book-Shredding Scheme for Claude AI Triggers $1.5B Settlement
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Anthropic secretly ran a program called Project Panama to shred millions of used books to train Claude AI, arguing the practice was transformative fair use; the move, revealed in court documents, helped avoid royalties and led to a $1.5 billion settlement, with earlier LibGen piracy and Meta’s similar practices drawing ethical scrutiny.
- Anthropic Knew the Public Would Be Disgusted by How It Was Destroying Physical Books, Secret Documents Reveal Futurism
- Inside an AI start-up’s plan to scan and dispose of millions of books The Washington Post
- Anthropic faces new music publisher lawsuit over alleged piracy Reuters
- Music publishers sue Anthropic for $3 billion over ‘flagrant piracy’ Engadget
- Judge Named in New Anthropic Suit, Settlement Deadline Pushed Publishers Weekly
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