Tom Turvey
GermanyexecutiveMale4.9Global Dominance: 0.00%Tom Turvey is a former project leader at Google Books and an expert in digitization and copyright issues. He has been involved in efforts to legally acquire and digitize books for use in training artificial intelligence technologies, navigating the challenges of copyright compliance in the process.
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Tom Turvey is a key figure behind Anthropic's aggressive literature acquisition strategy, previously a Google Books developer.
Kaufen, scannen, vernichten: warum KI-Firmen Antiquariatsbestände aufkaufen
Switzerland· 2026-07-29
Tech manager Tom Turvey was tasked with acquiring 'all the books in the world' for Anthropic.
Anthropic und die Buchscan-Maschinen: Dann fressen wir sie halt - KulturGermany· 2026-07-21
The approach drew on lessons from earlier mass digitisation efforts, including Google Books, and was shaped in part by Tom Turvey, who previously worked on that project.
Inside Project Panama: 2 million books scanned and destroyed by Anthropic AI to train machines |
India· 2026-02-02
Tom Turvey is the former head of the Google Books project who was hired by Anthropic to acquire books legally.
Anthropic vai pagar US$ 1,5 bilhão por violação de direitos autorais para treinar IA
Liechtenstein· 2025-09-05
