Late last month, Anthropic, the artificial intelligence company behind the chatbot Claude, agreed to a whopping $1.5 billion settlement resolving copyright claims over its acquisition and use of millions of pirated books to develop its AI models, making it the largest copyright settlement in U.S. history.
According to court documents, Anthropic’s Project Panama involved the purchasing of millions of physical books in bulk, which hydraulic cutting machines then sliced the spines off of so that the pages could be fed into high-speed scanners to train Claude.
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The remnants of the books were then shredded — and that’s the part that disturbs Glenn Beck the most.
“The book is not discarded; it’s shredded. … It’s destroyed on purpose because now the digital copy is now considered enough,” he warns.
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