To those building large language models, books are nothing more than fodder to be devoured en masse before being spit out like fishbone. Often, they’re happy to use digital books — or even better, pirated digital books, as Meta has been accused of doing, and as Anthropic was forced to pay a $1.5 billion settlement to authors for also doing.

But many companies, including Anthropic, have turned to ingesting physical books instead, which they can buy countless used copies of on the cheap. According to the settled lawsuit, Anthropic used a hydraulic powered cutting machine to neatly remove the pages from the books it procured from book resellers and then scanned them using industrial-grade imaging equipment. In other words, it was literally ripping off authors’ books to train its AI. ( https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-companies-destroying-rare-books )

It is obvious that George Orwell’s prophecy is coming true. They are rewriting history by destroying ancient books. Their intention is to alter dates to conceal the fact that, for instance, Jesus Christ lived a thousand years ago.