The Public Square - Two Minute Daily
Oct 15, 2026 · 2 min · 5 segments
Why would a company trying to to position itself as having the "good" AI have a secret poroject to destroy rare and valuable books to feed its AI? Tune in to The Public Square® today to hear more…
Wayne, we've been talking about AI and how frustrating it is to hear some of the conversations that take on godlike characteristics and other things.
Alan, I know in this whole conversation you have been well-versed and you've got strong ideas.
They're kind of carving out their niche in this marketplace as they're the good AI guys.
Anthropic was secretly destructively scanning all the books they could purchase from independent booksellers to feed into their large language models to train it.
This started in 2024 and they called it their effort to destructively scan all the books in the world.
Wayne, we've been talking about AI and how frustrating it is to hear some of the conversations that take on godlike characteristics and other things.
Alan, I know in this whole conversation you have been well-versed and you've got strong ideas.
They're kind of carving out their niche in this marketplace as they're the good AI guys.
Anthropic was secretly destructively scanning all the books they could purchase from independent booksellers to feed into their large language models to train it.
This started in 2024 and they called it their effort to destructively scan all the books in the world.
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