Ars Technica1d ago
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."
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/06/anthropic-destroyed-millions-of-print-books-to-build-its-ai-models/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
Show threadKarl Auerbach

@arstechnica Have you read Virnor Vinge's novel "Rainbows End"?

In that book libraries are digitized by shredding the books into pieces and scanning the pieces while they fall through the air immediately after the shredding.

Materials that are overlooked and not scanned fall into a pre-history category and effectively fall out of human knowledge.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbows_End_(Vinge_novel)

Rainbows End (Vinge novel) - Wikipedia

Jun 25 at 8:23pmWeb
Show threadRoyce Williams1d ago

@karlauerbach

Here to fanboy-gush about this book. Soooo good.