{"id":444208,"date":"2026-02-02T06:42:28","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T06:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/444208\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T06:42:28","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T06:42:28","slug":"anthropics-secret-plan-to-destructively-scan-all-the-books-in-the-world-revealed-by-unredacted-files","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/444208\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthropic\u2019s \u2018secret plan\u2019 to \u2018destructively scan all the books in the world&#8217; revealed by unredacted files"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/124.jpg\" alt=\"\u00a9 Shutterstock\" title=\"\u00a9 Shutterstock\" class=\"aos-Image aos-W100\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 Shutterstock<\/p>\n<p>A number of newly unredacted (and partially redacted) documents from the Anthropic case have shed light on how executives at the tech giant ramped up plans in early 2024 to scan \u201call the books in the world\u201d to teach their AI tool \u201chow to write well\u201d.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Register to read for FREE.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Serious about the book trade?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebookseller.com\/registration?utm_source=thebookseller&amp;utm_medium=paywall&amp;utm_campaign=anon+user+paywall\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Join thousands of book industry professionals who never miss a story.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebookseller.com\/registration?utm_source=thebookseller&amp;utm_medium=paywall&amp;utm_campaign=anon+user+paywall\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Create a free account<\/a> to unlock 3 articles a month and receive tailored newsletters with the latest from the book trade.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Want full access? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebookseller.com\/subscribe?utm_source=thebookseller&amp;utm_medium=paywall&amp;utm_campaign=anon+user+paywall\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe<\/a> from just \u00a33.65 a week and unlock full access to exclusive interviews, rights deals, industry data and more:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\ud83d\udddeWeekly print copies of The Bookseller magazine\u00a0<br \/>\ud83d\udcf1Unlimited access to thebookseller.com (single user)\u00a0<br \/>\ud83d\udc68\u200d\ud83d\udcbbThe Bookseller digital edition for desktop, tablet and mobile\u00a0<br \/>\ud83d\udc8cSubscriber-only newsletters\u00a0<br \/>\ud83d\udcdaTwice-yearly Buyer\u2019s Guides worth \u00a330\u00a0<br \/>\ud83d\udca1Discounts on events and conferences<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00a9 Shutterstock A number of newly unredacted (and partially redacted) documents from the Anthropic case have shed light&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":444209,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[182,181,507,74],"class_list":{"0":"post-444208","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=444208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444208\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/444209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}