Anthropic, the AI company which Google has invested billions of dollars in, had an extremely wasteful way of gathering the data it needed to train its Claude AI model. As Ars Technica reports, it didn't just crib from millions of copyrighted books,

On Monday, court documents revealed that AI company Anthropic spent millions of dollars physically scanning print books to build Claude, an AI assistant similar to ChatGPT. In the process, the company cut millions of print books from their bindings,

In a test case for the artificial intelligence industry, a federal judge has ruled that AI company Anthropic didn’t break the law by training its chatbot Claude on millions of copyrighted books.