Establishes the literary lifecycle management or LLM act which prohibits the destruction of rare books

◆ The sponsor's argument

Why Kristen Gonzalez says this is needed

Like something out of a book, court documents have revealed how Anthrop- ic secretly bought, scanned, and destroyed books to train their AI chat- bot. The operation, which they named Project Panama, was Anthropic's plan to "destructively scan all the books in the world" per internal planning documents and infuse their AI chatbot, Claude, with higher quality communication abilities. Court documents show how Anthropic purchased and destroyed millions of print books, reportedly including rare titles, in their effort to produce this quality communication outcome. This legislation would prohibit the destruction of rare books for commercial purposes by making it unlawful to intentionally destroy any book published before 1970 or was a part of a limited print run. It includes a civil penalty and additional penalties accounting for the market cost of a book. With the rise and rapid growth of Al, it is important to safeguard the printed word. This is especially true of rare materials, where many copies may not exist, and once a version is digitized, it's at the mercy of AI interpretation and summarization. Through this bill we can safe- guard rare materials and show big tech how New York feels about the destruction of books.

This is the sponsor's own case for the bill, quoted from their memorandum. It is not Agora's description of what the bill does.