I can see the pro's and cons of AI. I have no objection to the digitisation of books, nor to the careful storage of their contents in forms that can be searched, studied and preserved. Used responsibly, this technology could widen access to human knowledge on a scale previously unimaginable. But cutting apart millions of physical books, scanning them into a private corporate collection and then throwing the originals away is something else entirely. It is not preservation. It is extraction. The details of Anthropic’s “Project Panama” are astonishing. According to internal documents disclosed through litigation, the project was described as an effort to “destructively scan all the books in the world.” Anthropic reportedly bought books in enormous batches, including through Better World Books and the UK-based World of Books. A specialist contractor then used hydraulic machinery to remove their spines, cut the pages, scan them at industrial speed and send the remains for recycling. T...
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