Uploaded July 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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This sounds like the deranged plan of a super villain... Shredding old and rare books to feed them into a computer. I hate this timeline.

Sources:

arstechnica.com/ai/2025/06/anthropic-destroyed-millions-of-print-books-to-build-its-ai-models
newsnationnow.com/business/tech/ai-anthropic-buying-destroying-books-train-lawsuit
futurism.com/future-society/anthropic-destroying-books


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