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Court records show every book scanned destructively for training

development2026-01-27

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Court records revealed Anthropic secretly spent millions to destructively scan every book it could obtain for training data.

Reporting date: 2026-01-27 (not necessarily the event date)

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Welcome to January 27, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)

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Welcome to January 27, 2026

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Anthropic

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Welcome to January 27, 2026

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Court records show every book scanned destructively for training
Innermost Loop KB — secondary record
Reporting date: 2026-01-27
KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/developments/2026-01-27-books-destructively-scanned
Claim: Court records revealed Anthropic secretly spent millions to destructively scan every book it could obtain for training data.
Attributed sources:
- Welcome to January 27, 2026 — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/welcome-to-january-27-2026
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