Philippa Wain , BBC; Secondhand book sales are booming. Is it because of AI?
"Destructive scanning
The court documents relating to the Anthropic case revealed the project of ingesting old books was referred to in internal company communications as "Project Panama."
The documents indicated the company's aim was to "destructively scan all the books in the world".
Destructive scanning is the process of shipping books to locations where they can be digitised at an industrial scale.
It includes removing a book's spine so all the pages can be scanned rapidly - and the remains recycled.
"A lot of mystery surrounds Project Panama," Manley, from Barter Books, says."
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