'Dystopian' - AI firms target London’s rare bookshops in hunt for training data

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RECIT - Recent judicial documents have proven the existence of "Project Panama", a vast secret operation by Anthropic which involved the purchase of a large number of books from booksellers around the world.

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Allegations that AI companies are physically destroying rare artifacts after purchasing them in bulk to train their models have sparked controversy, raising concerns that humanity's accumulated knowledge may be "sacrificed to machines" behind closed doors.

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The business of destroying books by AI model manufacturers has aspects that would make any bibliophile's blood run cold. The damage that is happening is both dangerous and irreversible. Opinion by David Pereira