{"id":702929,"date":"2026-07-29T10:00:43","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T14:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=702929"},"modified":"2026-07-29T10:00:43","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T14:00:43","slug":"after-seeing-a-post-on-it-yesterday-ive-looked-more-deeply-into-anthropics-purchasing-and-destruction-of-millions-of-used-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=702929","title":{"rendered":"After seeing a post on it yesterday, I\u2019ve looked more deeply into Anthropic\u2019s purchasing and destruction of millions of used books."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They spent tens of millions of dollars acquiring and destroying books to train their <em><strong>AI model, Claude.<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0They knew, from the beginning that it would be unpopular. They knew what they were doing, was wrong.<\/p>\n<p>An internal memo from 2024 stated:\u00a0\u201cProject Panama is our effort to destructively scan all the books in the world.\u201d\u00a0\u201cWe don\u2019t want it to be known that we are working on this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BBHerodotus\/status\/2082148240367988971\">https:\/\/x.com\/BBHerodotus\/status\/2082148240367988971<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Two tragedies (am sure there are more) &#8211; the destruction of rare one-of-a-kind historical books AND doing so by theft &amp; without compensation of any kind for the authors?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They spent tens of millions of dollars acquiring and destroying books to train their AI model, Claude.\u00a0They knew, from the beginning that it would be unpopular. They knew what they were doing, was wrong. An internal memo from 2024 stated:\u00a0\u201cProject &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=702929\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2948,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-702929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2948"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=702929"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":702930,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702929\/revisions\/702930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=702929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=702929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=702929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}