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The Vergecast — Millions of books died so Claude could live
Not scored yet1h 28m·2026-02-03·Technology

Millions of books died so Claude could live

The Vergecast

AI companies want all the data, everywhere, to make their models bigger and better. That means a lot of questions about piracy and copyright, and at least in one case it means Anthropic systematically destroying countless books just to feed them to the model. The Washington Post's Will Oremus joins the show to explain…

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