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 the world,” an internal planning document unsealed in legal filings last week said. “We don’t want it to be known that we are working on this.”
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The comments overwhelmingly criticize Anthropic's approach to acquiring books for AI training, labeling it as theft and a violation of copyright laws. Many commenters express disbelief that such actions could be justified under the "fair use" doctrine, arguing that the use of... Show more
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