Court filings reveal how AI companies raced to obtain more books to feed chatbots, including by buying, scanning and disposing of millions of titles.

Project Panama, an internal effort by Anthropic AI, involved scanning and destroying up to 2 million books to train artificial intelligence systems.

Uncover the truth behind the "Secret Plan" of Anthropic and the controversial destructive scanning of world literature.

Today in schnozz-smashing on-the-nose metaphors for the AI industry’s rapacious destruction of the arts: exactly how Anthropic gathered the data it needed to train its Claude AI model. As Ars Technica ...

In early 2024, executives at artificial intelligence start-up Anthropic ramped up an ambitious project they sought to keep quiet. “Project Panama is our effort to destructively scan all the books in ...