{"id":121197,"date":"2026-07-28T09:28:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T09:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/121197\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T09:28:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T09:28:08","slug":"is-anthropic-destroying-rare-books-after-training-ai-models-on-them-elon-musk-michael-burry-and-others-react-amid-online-outrage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/121197\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Anthropic Destroying Rare Books After Training AI Models On Them? Elon Musk, Michael Burry And Others React Amid Online Outrage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While Anthropic has agreed to settle the lawsuit, the company has faced backlash on X over its practice of destroying rare books.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, Anthropic agreed to pay $1.5 billion to settle a class-action lawsuit alleging it used hundreds of thousands of pirated books to train its Claude AI models.X users, including personalities like Michael Burry and David Sachs, criticized Anthropic.Over the past three years, authors, news publishers, artists and image libraries have filed dozens of copyright lawsuits against AI companies.<\/p>\n<p>Anthropic was at the center of another controversy this week after details emerged from a recently settled lawsuit, revealing that the AI company had purchased rare books in bulk, scanned them using high-speed machines that sliced off their spines, and then shredded the original copies.<\/p>\n<p>According to the settled lawsuit, Anthropic used a hydraulic powered cutting machine to neatly remove the pages from the books it procured from book resellers and then scanned them using industrial-grade imaging equipment, tech news site Futurism reported.<\/p>\n<p>However, since Anthropic was converting the original physical texts into digital copies \u2014 rather than redistributing them as new copies \u2014 a judge found this to be \u201ctransformative\u201d and therefore protected by fair use. In fact, 404 Media reported there exist services \u2013 one such being ISBNdb \u2013\u00a0 that offer AI companies rare books and keep buyers\u2019 identities anonymous.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, Anthropic agreed to pay $1.5 billion to settle a class-action lawsuit alleging it used hundreds of thousands of pirated books to train its Claude AI models, marking the largest copyright settlement in U.S. history. Still, Anthropic faced\u00a0<a class=\"st-link-external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/HedgieMarkets\/status\/2081534588485296565\/quotes\">backlash<\/a> on X.<\/p>\n<p>Posting through X, noted investor Michael Burry\u00a0<a class=\"st-link-external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/michaeljburry\/status\/2081898573264834837\">wrote<\/a> \u201cEvil incarnate\u201d in response to a user\u2019s post about the said practice, and Tesla and SpaceX founder\u00a0<a class=\"st-link-external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/elonmusk\/status\/2081844165881594362\">said<\/a> he had asked the SpaceXAI team to preserve any rare books in a library and \u201cscan them the hard way vs just cutting off the spine and scanning.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnthropic maintains that it is entitled to train for free on all the world\u2019s output, even if the author objects. But if a competitor trains on Anthropic\u2019s output after paying for it, that is IP theft. The hypocrisy is breathtaking,\u201d venture capitalist and chair of the President&#8217;s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology David Sacks said in an\u00a0<a class=\"st-link-external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DavidSacks\/status\/2081867338392150282\">X post<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>AI copyright suits are not new. Over the past three years, authors, news publishers, artists and image libraries have filed dozens of lawsuits against AI companies, alleging they copied copyrighted books, articles, images and other creative works without permission to train generative AI models.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The outcomes have been mixed. 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