# Musk, Burry Amplify Claims Anthropic Destroyed Books After AI Training

By Alex Index · 2026-07-28 · Licensing & Legal · https://datacommenter.com/musk-burry-amplify-claims-anthropic-destroyed-books-after-ai-training/
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> TradingView reported on July 28, 2026 that Elon Musk, Michael Burry and other high-profile accounts spread online claims that Anthropic destroyed rare books after digitizing them to train its AI…

Original reporting: [TradingView](https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMimAJBVV95cUxPRE5Ja1V6TkhjUmZsWW1wXzdOdjFrMHptb21qQ3VXcFc0SThLZExiR1N4TVhNcDlDWFVHUWtRd3llUGhZWXF3WUttaDlIWHAtY05UaUNFTG5FSzlzMkZZaVhXdmZVbmZLSkp3bUlqZlNxcEtFdTlRZ2paOW9wRUwyOVdBVGNCNEdSY1NLYUtaaWtLUE1NOFdCNm9iUWFmVWdRVUh1Z1I3eVI1TUFlSi1UMTNYbjJnbTF4UTBKemlCRzFKMTF3bXRpNGI2VVY3UVJtb0lRZ3VSSF96TGtSU1pGdmF1ZEhOSENSTzYxc0tEZFJSQ21NT1gxdzF5OVBzUFBKQ3pDcWh3YXRHMEI2UHViM1V3NzBuZGRR?oc=5)
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What’s actually changed here is the audience, not the underlying facts. Anthropic’s practice of buying physical books, cutting their bindings, and scanning the pages for training data has been part of the public record since the Bartz v. Anthropic copyright litigation, which the company settled in 2025 for roughly $1.5 billion. That process — destructive by design, since flatbed scanning at scale usually means debinding — is not new. What TradingView is describing on July 28, 2026 is a fresh wave of outrage, with Elon Musk and Michael Burry among the names amplifying it, apparently reviving and reframing that history under a “rare books” label.

That reframing matters because it’s doing real work: “destroying books to train an AI” reads very differently from “destructively scanning purchased print copies for OCR,” and “rare books” implies irreplaceable cultural loss rather than routine acquisition of used trade editions. TradingView’s own text, as sourced here, offers no inventory, no court filing, and no on-record confirmation of which books, how many, or whether any were actually rare or out-of-print. For an industry beat that lives on distinguishing verified data-sourcing practice from viral compression of it, that gap is the story.

> The scanning practice is documented; the “rare books” framing driving this backlash is not — yet.

What would change the read: a specific title list, appraisal records, or an Anthropic statement addressing provenance and rarity of the destroyed volumes. Until then, this is best read as a legal-settlement fact being repackaged into a social-media controversy — worth tracking for how it shapes public and regulatory sentiment toward AI training-data sourcing, but not yet corroborated as a new disclosure.

> Is Anthropic Destroying Rare Books After Training AI Models On Them? Elon Musk, Michael Burry And Others React Amid Online Outrage
> — [TradingView](https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMimAJBVV95cUxPRE5Ja1V6TkhjUmZsWW1wXzdOdjFrMHptb21qQ3VXcFc0SThLZExiR1N4TVhNcDlDWFVHUWtRd3llUGhZWXF3WUttaDlIWHAtY05UaUNFTG5FSzlzMkZZaVhXdmZVbmZLSkp3bUlqZlNxcEtFdTlRZ2paOW9wRUwyOVdBVGNCNEdSY1NLYUtaaWtLUE1NOFdCNm9iUWFmVWdRVUh1Z1I3eVI1TUFlSi1UMTNYbjJnbTF4UTBKemlCRzFKMTF3bXRpNGI2VVY3UVJtb0lRZ3VSSF96TGtSU1pGdmF1ZEhOSENSTzYxc0tEZFJSQ21NT1gxdzF5OVBzUFBKQ3pDcWh3YXRHMEI2UHViM1V3NzBuZGRR?oc=5)

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