<div>Bookstores are reporting very suspicious orders they believe are linked to AI</div> <div> </div> <div>One bookstore called Kenny’s Bookshop got an order 5,000 books, most of them very obscure and second hand</div> <div> </div> <div>Many book dealers are now flagging orders like this after Anthropic by Claude ran an internal project called project Panama</div> <div> </div> <div>Court documents from a copyright lawsuit revealed they bought millions of physical books in bulk, cut the spines off with industrial machines for high-speed scanning, digitized the pages for AI training data</div> <div> </div> <div>After they were done with the books they just threw them away</div> <div> </div> <div>So now when bookstores get orders like this, it’s very concerning</div>