This is little different that Ray Bradbury's book Fahrenheit 451: destroying millions of books to create Claude, who helps people to stop thinking for themselves.
Anthropic destroyed millions of print books to build its AI models
Benj Edwards: #Anthropic destroyed millions of print books to build its #AI models: Company hired Google’s book-scanning chief to cut up and digitize “all the books in the world.”
#books #bookburning #Google #Fahrenheit451 #dystopia #chatbots
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/06/anthropic-destroyed-millions-of-print-books-to-build-its-ai-models/