All the Books in the World

"Should we destroy all the books in the world?"  

Read more in The Guardian opinion piece by the Lillian Goldman Law Library's Rare Book Librarian, Kathryn James, on the recent court decision concerning the AI company Anthropic's use of books to train its large language model, Claude.   

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