Project Panama: Scanning And Book Destruction At AnthropicBook burning. The company, according to its own description, “gathers data from various public sources like libraries and merchants to compile a vast collection of unique book data searchable by ISBN, title, author or publisher.” “Print books from the pre-LLM era are structurally guaranteed to be free of this contamination,” states an article published by the company. Retained service providers then went about their work: stripping the book bindings, cutting the pages to size, scanning the books into digital form. “Anthropic purchased its print copies fair and square.”