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AI companies accused of destructive book scanning

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Latest: Anthropic settles copyright lawsuit for $1.5 billion

Concerns have emerged regarding the practice of ‘destructive scanning’ used to acquire training data for artificial intelligence. Initially, Australian booksellers and rare-book experts reported that the Canadian company

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AI book digitization and destructive scanning controversy

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Latest: Specialized textbooks see bulk purchases linked to AI training

In late July 2026, SpaceXAI announced it would use non-destructive scanning for rare books, contrasting with the high-speed, spine-cutting methods used by other firms. This follows reports into Anthropic’s ‘Project Panam