Talk:Project Panama

Did you know nomination

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The result was: promoted by Beta Beta Beta (talk) 19:53, 31 August 2026 (UTC)

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• ... that AI company Anthropic began scanning and destroying millions of rare books in order to train Claude in 2024?

• Source: Schaffer, Aaron; Oremus, Will; Tiku, Nitasha (27 January 2026). "Inside an AI start-up's plan to scan and dispose of millions of books". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on 2026-02-25. Retrieved 2 February 2026.

• • ALT1: ... that AI company Anthropic paid a US$1.5billion settlement in 2025 for pirating 482,460 books? Source: Schaffer, Aaron; Oremus, Will; Tiku, Nitasha (27 January 2026). "Inside an AI start-up's plan to scan and dispose of millions of books". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on 2026-02-25. Retrieved 2 February 2026.
  • ALT2: ... that AI company Anthropic began scanning and destroying millions of rare books to train their AI model Claude in 2024?

• Source: Schaffer, Aaron; Oremus, Will; Tiku, Nitasha (27 January 2026). "Inside an AI start-up's plan to scan and dispose of millions of books". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on 2026-02-25. Retrieved 2 February 2026.

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Created by Guninvalid (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

guninvalid (talk) 06:49, 5 August 2026 (UTC).

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy compliance:

• Adequate sourcing: - There is one statement with a "citation needed" tag, which should be resolved.
• Neutral:
• Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook eligibility:

• Cited:
• Interesting:
• Other problems: - In ALT0, I suggest removing the words "in order" (i.e. just saying "to train Claude"), and clarifying what Claude is.

QPQ: None required.

Overall: @Guninvalid: Welcome to DYK. This looks like a good start, but there are a few things that need to be fixed. Epicgenius (talk) 13:51, 6 August 2026 (UTC)

@Epicgenius Added ALT2 accordingly and resolved the cn. This look better? guninvalid (talk) 14:31, 6 August 2026 (UTC)

Yeah, ALT1 and ALT2 look good now. Thanks. Epicgenius (talk) 14:33, 6 August 2026 (UTC)

Thanks. ALT2 is my preference, though ALT1 is also fine. guninvalid (talk) 14:36, 6 August 2026 (UTC)

I don't see the number 482,460 or the word "rare" in the Washington Post source. The number 482,460 may come from this runtimewire article. I have seen sources that discuss rare books being bought by AI companies, but I haven't seen a source attributing "millions of rare books" to Project Panama, this needs verification (or the removal of the word "rare"). Alenoach (talk) 00:46, 19 August 2026 (UTC)

According to Snopes, part of the books are "less common", but whether this includes "rare" books is unclear. Alenoach (talk) 22:07, 27 August 2026 (UTC)

Besides that, I think the first proposition could be rephrased to "that AI company Anthropic began in 2024 to destructively scan millions of rare books in order to train Claude". Alenoach (talk) 00:49, 19 August 2026 (UTC)

Withdrawing ALT1 from consideration. Based on this discussion on WP:RSN, I've removed the runtimewire source from the article. I'm not able to find the 482,460 number in any reliable sources. The closest I'm able to find is this CBS news source which cites 465,000 books, and which seems to be republishing from MoneyWatch, not a reliable source. guninvalid (talk) 22:45, 25 August 2026 (UTC)

482,460 books

Based on this discussion at WP:RSN, I've removed the runtimewire source, but there doesnt seem to be any other reliable reporting of the 482,460 number. I've left it there with a CN for that specific fact for now, but I hope someone can do a better job than I can. guninvalid (talk) 22:48, 25 August 2026 (UTC)