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Anna's Archive Called for 10 Million Volunteer Scanners, Citing Anthropic's 'Project Panama' Book Destruction
Anna's Archive published a call to scan rare books before AI companies buy and destroy them, reaching 621 points and 895 comments on Hacker News. The post names Anthropic's 'Project Panama', alleging the company spent tens of millions buying millions of paper books, scanning them to train Claude, and destroying the physical copies, details surfaced during its $1.5 billion copyright settlement. The ask is concrete: volunteers scanning books, journals, newspapers and archival material and uploading to the shadow library, on the arithmetic that 10 million volunteers scanning one book each yields 10 million preserved works.
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