They spent tens of millions of dollars acquiring and destroying books to train their AI model, Claude. They knew, from the beginning that it would be unpopular. They knew what they were doing, was wrong.

An internal memo from 2024 stated: “Project Panama is our effort to destructively scan all the books in the world.” “We don’t want it to be known that we are working on this.”

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Two tragedies (am sure there are more) – the destruction of rare one-of-a-kind historical books AND doing so by theft & without compensation of any kind for the authors?