AI companies are purchasing rare and out-of-print books in bulk, cutting off their spines, scanning the pages, and then disposing of the originals, according to court documents and industry reports. A…
Anthropic spent tens of millions of dollars secretly buying, scanning and destroying millions of physical books to train its Claude chatbot, according to more than 4,000 pages of unsealed court docume…
AI companies are bulk-buying rare books, scanning them with high-speed machines that cut off the spines, and shredding the originals, according to a report by 404 Media. A service called ISBNdb facili…
Publishers Hachette, Cengage, Elsevier and author Scott Turow sued Google on July 15, 2026, accusing it of using millions of copyrighted books to train its Gemini AI without permission or payment, in …
Google faces a new copyright lawsuit filed on July 10 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York by Hachette Book Group, Cengage, Elsevier, and author Scott Turow, who accuse the…
Borja Aresti commented on a $200,000 bounty for extracting all book scans from Google Books or similar large collections, urging volunteers to read guidelines and contact early with scalable methods.…
Anna's Archive offers a $200,000 bounty for a scalable method to extract all scanned books from Google Books or similar large collections, including those held by AI companies. The bounty targets data…