Publishers Furious After Major Distributor Admits Selling Books to AI Company Anthropic
Japanese publishers are expressing outrage after one of the country’s largest book distributors acknowledged selling large quantities of Japanese books to Anthropic, the American AI company behind Claude, raising concerns that the publications may have been destroyed and digitized for AI training without publishers’…
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