# Anthropic acquired millions of physical books, removed their bindings with industrial cutters, scanned the pages into…
*Canonical page:* https://truthscore.com/claim/anthropic-acquired-millions-of-physical-books-removed-their-bindings--4b1f58c8
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Anthropic acquired millions of physical books, removed their bindings with industrial cutters, scanned the pages into digital files, and discarded or recycled the paper.

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## Sources

- [Anthropic’s Destructive Book Digitization for Model Training- A Modern "Book Burning"?](https://truthscore.com/source/0fb30dc2)