An AI lab reportedly offered a woodworking shop $1M to be watched

According to a secondhand anecdote, Anthropic offered a woodworking firm $1 million for three months of virtual observation of its team, to model how the work is done. The story is unverified and comes from a third party. If true, it points to where AI training may be heading. Text from the internet is largely used up, so labs may pay for what no one has written down: the know-how of skilled hands and the judgment of people who do physical jobs. A carpenter's habits, it seems, could be worth seven figures.