Snopes reviewed internal documents from Anthropic that show they have bought millions of books to "destructively scan" them ...

Anthropic destroying books to train Claude was ruled legal. Here is the rule that made it work, explained simply.

AI developers are quietly buying physical books by the millions, slicing them apart, and scanning every page into AI training ...

AI companies purchasing large quantities of used books for scanningSecuring original text materials for LLM trainingAnthropic ...

Court documents show that AI companies are buying and shredding thousands of rare books in an effort to improve the quality ...

If you have retreated to physical books because the internet is too full of AI slop, bad news — now they’re shredding the books to feed their AI slop machines.

Book burning. Book pulping. Book vandalising. It’s all the fashion and, dare one say it, the rage. Libraries are carting them off to the dump. Repositories of memory are being shredded in favour of ...

Ever since a lawsuit in summer 2025 outed Anthropic for destroying millions of print books to train its AI models, book lovers have moved to defend some of the most precious collections from what ...

But as a PR matter, Alsup's order was a disaster for Anthropic — generating exactly the sort of "AI company destroys millions ...