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"...Internal documents unsealed in legal filings in January revealed that Anthropic was acutely aware of how negatively such a project would be received outside the company.

“Project Panama is our effort to destructively scan all the books in the world,” an internal planning document said. “We don’t want it to be known that we are working on this.” ..."

Once again, see Rainbows End, by Vernor Vinge. Foresaw exactly this. Written in 2006, takes place in 2025.
Glad the news broke. Now the market price for old books will shoot up
You know who also destroyed old books? The Nazis!
Destroying books is a crime against humanity. Only bad people willingly destroy books.
I thought that title was misleading. They have to cut the book up to scan it. The way it reads makes it seem like they scan it then destroy it afterwards.