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Artificial intelligence destroyed millions of books after scanning them – Why?
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The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – Anthropic bought millions of books, chopping of their spines with hydraulic cutters. After they scanned the pages into their data center, the original works were turned into pulp. The only reason we know this is that Anthropic was sued, making court documents a matter of public record. Why all the secrecy? Why don’t they want...
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