Tetsuro Miyatake (@tmiyatake1)

Anthropic가 AI 학습용으로 전 세계의 책을 수집해 전 페이지를 스캔하고 일부를 파기하는 내부 프로젝트 'Project Panama' 관련 문서와 책 창고 사진이 공개되었다는 워싱턴포스트 보도. 학습 데이터 수집 방식과 저작권·윤리 논란을 불러일으킬 소지가 있음.

https://x.com/tmiyatake1/status/2018475269158215855

#anthropic #projectpanama #dataset #bookscanning #aitraining

Hackaday: A Scanner For Arduino-Powered Book Archiving. “Scanners for loose papers have become so commonplace that almost every printer includes one, but book scanners have remained frustratingly rare for non-librarians and archivists. [Brad Mattson] had some books to scan, but couldn’t find an affordable scanner that met his needs, so he took the obvious hacker solution and built his own.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/07/hackaday-a-scanner-for-arduino-powered-book-archiving/

"While destructive scanning is a common practice among some book digitizing operations, Anthropic's approach was somewhat unusual due to its documented massive scale. By contrast, the Google Books project largely used a patented non-destructive camera process to scan millions of books borrowed from libraries and later returned. For Anthropic, the faster speed and lower cost of the destructive process appears to have trumped any need for preserving the physical books themselves, hinting at the need for a cheap and easy solution in a highly competitive industry.

Ultimately, Judge William Alsup ruled that this destructive scanning operation qualified as fair use—but only because Anthropic had legally purchased the books first, destroyed each print copy after scanning, and kept the digital files internally rather than distributing them. The judge compared the process to "conserv[ing] space" through format conversion and found it transformative. Had Anthropic stuck to this approach from the beginning, it might have achieved the first legally sanctioned case of AI fair use. Instead, the company's earlier piracy undermined its position."

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/06/anthropic-destroyed-millions-of-print-books-to-build-its-ai-models/

#AI #GenerativeAI #Anthropic #Claude #FairUse #BookScanning #Copyright #IP

Does anyone on the Fediverse do book scanning? If so, what is your setup?

I'm not looking for a howto as much as I am curious what book scanners use? Their phone? A flatbed scanner? An inexpensive book scanner like the CZUR? A professional book scanning setup?

#BookScanning #Books

Is it bad that I get a book, that isn't available as digital, and immediately cut it up and scan it? That is what I do though.....and I kinda like it.

#bookscanning