{"id":85195,"date":"2026-08-05T09:33:46","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T13:33:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=85195"},"modified":"2026-08-05T09:33:46","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T13:33:46","slug":"why-is-anthropic-destroying-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/why-is-anthropic-destroying-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Is Anthropic Destroying Books?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <em>The Guardian:<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Should we destroy all the books in the world?<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">An answer to this question can be found in the court documents of Bartz v Anthropic PBC. The northern California district court case, decided in late July this year, highlighted the improbably named \u201cProject Panama\u201d, one of the AI company Anthropic\u2019s efforts to improve its large language model Claude. \u201cWhat is Project Panama?\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.courtlistener.com\/docket\/69058235\/554\/21\/bartz-v-anthropic-pbc\/\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">court exhibit 21<\/a>\u00a0asks, in an internal memo. The answer: \u201cProject Panama is our effort to destructively scan all the books in the world.\u201d The memo advises discretion: \u201cWhy use a codename? \u2026 [B]ecause we don\u2019t want it to be known that we are working on this.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Guardian: Should we destroy all the books in the world? An answer to this question can be found.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-85195","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85195"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85196,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85195\/revisions\/85196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}