Anthropic, the AI company which Google has invested billions of dollars in, had an extremely wasteful way of gathering the data it needed to train its Claude AI model.  As Ars Technica reports, it didn't just crib from millions of copyrighted books, a practice that's ethically and legally fraught on its own. No —  it cut the book pages out from their bindings, scanned them to make digital files, and then threw away all those millions of pages of the original texts. To say that the AI "devoured" these books wouldn't merely be colorful language. This practice was revealed in […]