Joe Rogan Experience #2571 - Jimmy Carr · Aired Oct 28, 2026
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A Northern California District Court case decided in late July highlighted a project called Project Panama where an AI company planned to destructively scan all the books in the world.
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Joe reads an account of Anthropic's Project Panama and dates a court decision to late July this year. The primary Bartz v. Anthropic fair-use order is dated June 23, 2025 and documents bulk purchase, destructive scanning and a retained digital library. That supports the scanning operation, but not the stated decision date, destruction of every copy of each title, or an effort to make literature unavailable to other readers.
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Is it true that a Northern California District Court case decided in late July highlighted a project called Project Panama where an AI company planned to destructively scan all the books in the world?
Partly. The claim stretches what the evidence shows. Joe reads an account of Anthropic's Project Panama and dates a court decision to late July this year. The primary Bartz v. It was said on Joe Rogan Experience #2571 - Jimmy Carr, aired Oct 28, 2026, at 2:05:38. We haven't independently confirmed who said it. The supporting source is hunton.com, linked below.
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