AI Companies–yes, even “the good one”–Are Buying Rare Books, Scanning Them, and Pulping Them to Avoid Copyright Law

Do you like books? As someone who runs our museum’s Research Library and also has a day job at a university library, I definitely like books. Which is why this report by Futurism from over the past weekend is so infuriating. It seems AI companies – yes, even Anthropic, “the good one” – are runningContinue reading “AI Companies–yes, even “the good one”–Are Buying Rare Books, Scanning Them, and Pulping Them to Avoid Copyright Law”