Why are AI firms bulk buying and pulping books? Because it’s cheaper than paying writers
In an internal memo, an executive at AI firm Anthropic wrote that ‘Project Panama is our effort to destructively scan all the books in the world’
Irish bookshop and online retailer Kenny’s told The Irish Times this week that they have been getting some unusual book orders, received via email in the middle of the night and requesting upwards of 5,000 often obscure titles. The pattern seen in Ga... [5501 chars]