On Monday, court documents revealed that AI company Anthropic spent millions of dollars physically scanning print books to build Claude , an AI assistant similar to ChatGPT reported yesterday. The 32 page legal decision tells the story of how, in February 2024, the company hired Tom Turvey, the former head of partnerships for the Google Books established key fair use precedents. While destructive scanning is a common practice among smaller scale operations, Anthropic approach was somewhat...
