📚 FTC urged to investigate AI firms for destroying books
More than a dozen civil society groups are urging the FTC to use its authority to examine what the letter's authors call a "destructive new data acquisition practice by dominant AI companies."
The groups include Demand Progress Education Fund, the Consumer Federation of America and the Institute for Local Self-Reliance. Anthropic spent millions to acquire and physically remove the spines of books to feed their scanned pages into Claude. Google, Microsoft and OpenAI have faced similar copyright lawsuits, per the Post.
The letter points out that in some cases, rare books could be destroyed forever, with digital firms snagging the last copies.
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More than a dozen civil society groups are urging the FTC to use its authority to examine what the letter's authors call a "destructive new data acquisition practice by dominant AI companies."
The groups include Demand Progress Education Fund, the Consumer Federation of America and the Institute for Local Self-Reliance. Anthropic spent millions to acquire and physically remove the spines of books to feed their scanned pages into Claude. Google, Microsoft and OpenAI have faced similar copyright lawsuits, per the Post.
The letter points out that in some cases, rare books could be destroyed forever, with digital firms snagging the last copies.
"We urge the FTC to view this practice not in isolation but rather as the latest escalation in a documented pattern of anticompetitive conduct designed to create an insurmountable systemic moat around AI incumbents," — the groups write.
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