‘Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.’ It would appear that the artificial intelligence company Anthropic has taken Francis Bacon’s advice rather too literally. Anthropic has drawn criticism following revelations it has been cannibalising millions of print books to feed its ravenous learning systems. In the scanning process it

AI Tech giants have been working on a secret project to buy millions of books and destroy them to feed their new models.

‘Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.’ It would appear that the artificial intelligence company Anthropic has taken Francis…