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What Anthropic Is Doing to Millions of Rare Books Must Be Stopped (Video)

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In this 31 July 2026 published vudeo, host Glenn Beck explains how Anthropic and other tech companies have bulk-purchased and destructively scanned millions of physical books—slicing off bindings to feed pages into industrial scanners before discarding the remains. While termed “destructive scanning”, the practice relies on the first-sale doctrine and legal fair-use rulings for purchased copies, distinct from separate copyright settlements over digital piracy.

Anthropic’s internal code-named initiative to digitize vast quantities of physical literature to train Claude AI models. Hydraulic cutting machines remove spines, and high-speed production scanners capture the text before the paper is recycled or discarded. A federal court ruled that converting legally owned physical books into an internal digital dataset qualifies as transformative fair use, provided the physical copy is not duplicated or distributed publicly. 

AI companies prioritize books printed before 2022 because they contain human-written, professionally edited text untouched by web-based “AI slop”. Training language models on human-generated text prevents model collapse caused by recursive machine-generated internet content. Third-party data brokers and databases (such as ISBNdb) have emerged to facilitate anonymous bulk-purchasing orders ranging from 1,000 to 1 million books. [

 

 

 

 



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