ARndmJoe

A guy who goes gym, likes jdm cars, reads dc, games and likes anime

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

If you or I say the Israeli prime minister ‘influences’ American politicians to get them to think his way and fight his wars, it’s antisemitic. But if the Israeli prime minister says it…

[ARndmJoe @ARndmJoe]

Burn the AI companies down. They can’t be allowed to destroy history and rare books to make an AI smarter

[Ole Lehmann @itsolelehmann]

btw anthropic's internal document on this literally said "we don't want it to be known that we are working on this.”

it was called project panama.

here's exactly what happened:

1: anthropic concluded that books were the cheapest way to build a world-class model because they gave claude curated facts, structured arguments, compelling stories, and writing “an editor would approve of.”

2: once anthropic decided it needed books at enormous scale, its first solution was piracy.

it downloaded 7m+ books from online libraries including libgen. the judge later wrote that although anthropic had legal ways to buy them, it chose piracy to avoid what dario amodei called the “legal/practice/business slog.”

3: that piracy created a massive legal risk.

so in february 2024, anthropic hired tom turvey, the former head of partnerships for google books, to find a legally safer way of obtaining “all the books in the world.”

4: turvey first contacted major publishers about licensing their catalogs.

those attempts didn’t produce agreements, so anthropic chose a route that required no publisher permission: buying millions of physical books through distributors and used-book retailers.

5: within about a year, anthropic spent tens of millions acquiring and scanning millions of books, including many rare and 1/1 titles. one vendor proposal targeted 500,000 to 2 million books in six months.

6: to scan that many books within months, the vendors physically dismantled them.

a hydraulic cutter removed each spine. the pages were trimmed to size, fed as loose sheets through high-speed industrial scanners, and converted into searchable PDFs. the paper remains were then sent for recycling.

7: these PDFs were fed into claude as training data.

the complete collection became a private, searchable anthropic library that the company planned to “store forever.” the scans aren’t available to the public and were never open-sourced.

[Ole Lehmann @itsolelehmann]

btw anthropic's internal document on this literally said "we don't want it to be known that we are working on this.”

it was called project panama.

here's exactly what happened:

1: anthropic concluded that books were the cheapest way to build a world-class model because they gave claude curated facts, structured arguments, compelling stories, and writing “an editor would approve of.”

2: once anthropic decided it needed books at enormous scale, its first solution was piracy.

it downloaded 7m+ books from online libraries including libgen. the judge later wrote that although anthropic had legal ways to buy them, it chose piracy to avoid what dario amodei called the “legal/practice/business slog.”

3: that piracy created a massive legal risk.

so in february 2024, anthropic hired tom turvey, the former head of partnerships for google books, to find a legally safer way of obtaining “all the books in the world.”

4: turvey first contacted major publishers about licensing their catalogs.

those attempts didn’t produce agreements, so anthropic chose a route that required no publisher permission: buying millions of physical books through distributors and used-book retailers.

5: within about a year, anthropic spent tens of millions acquiring and scanning millions of books, including many rare and 1/1 titles. one vendor proposal targeted 500,000 to 2 million books in six months.

6: to scan that many books within months, the vendors physically dismantled them.

a hydraulic cutter removed each spine. the pages were trimmed to size, fed as loose sheets through high-speed industrial scanners, and converted into searchable PDFs. the paper remains were then sent for recycling.

7: these PDFs were fed into claude as training data.

the complete collection became a private, searchable anthropic library that the company planned to “store forever.” the scans aren’t available to the public and were never open-sourced.

[ARndmJoe @ARndmJoe]

@Tims44m @g_gosden So when a business has gotten use an adapted to the reduced staff it has. Then wage comes down, they won’t hire more as that’s more money out of their pockets going on wages, especially since the wage outgoings has decreased

[ARndmJoe @ARndmJoe]

@Ian_1900 @LBC @TiceRichard @BenKentish We’re in a cost of living crisis where the young are struggling to afford rent or to buy housing and you want them to have even less?

[ARndmJoe @ARndmJoe]

@dbs_10_10 Ass poke 5000

[ARndmJoe @ARndmJoe]

@Beseeingyou365 @SaulStaniforth @ZackPolanski Which those businesses will pay the bare minimum and maximize the owners and stockholders profits. Billionaires don’t care about the creating jobs, they want to line their banks. Sky closed a uk call centre two months ago, in favour of a cheap foreign one. All for profit

[ARndmJoe @ARndmJoe]

@endercorpsu Me

[ARndmJoe @ARndmJoe]

@ashUKpatriot @BestForBritain My partners mum is Pakistani heritage, born and lives in crumpsal. Her faith isn’t her identity she is as much a manc as my Dad is who lived in sale till 20. It’s purely generational, a Muslim child attending our schools and growing up around other children will intergrate

[ARndmJoe @ARndmJoe]

@NiallMcclean @PhilipProudfoot statistically from real data and from criminal cases sexual assault from a trans person is less than 10% a study done in a prison showed 97 SA cases, 7 involved a trans woman in 6 they’re the assailant. Women are only scared cause they’re told to be scared of trans people

[ARndmJoe @ARndmJoe]

@EddGorenstein @tdwbi95 @bbcquestiontime I would disagree in part. Generation 0 of that household will have assimilation issues. Due to existing culture. One thing I’ve seen is their children are reflections of both cultures, they go through our school systems and integrate culturally from that.

[ARndmJoe @ARndmJoe]

@heart_oldham @implausibleblog We left the EU in a hard leave 😂 pull your head out the sand and admit that you were lied to and are still lying to yourself

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Zack Polanski, "I hear your anger. And I think you're right to be angry. I think we should all be angry when we've had 14 years of Conservative austerity that shut our libraries, shut our community centres, and then to say integration is a problem?"

"How do you expect people to integrate when you've taken away their services?"

"We need to make sure that all politicians are speaking about migration in a positive sense"

"Of course there will be people who have problems with migration. But their problems are, they can't get a dentist appointment; they're not enough council homes; because we've not invested in our communities"

"But none of these are problems of a black face"

"These are the problems of multimillionaires and billionaires, and politicians who haven't taxed them properly"

"We can change that"

"They're all political choices. Let's make different political choices"

[ARndmJoe @ARndmJoe]

@drewand14others @LBC I’ve been with my partner nearly a year, she no longer lives in Manchester but I’ve picked up a slight twang on how I say stuff from her. My grandad left Newcastle 60 years ago and has a subtle accent yet my uncle Joe who’s been here just as long is still full Caribbean sounding

[ARndmJoe @ARndmJoe]

@LiamSheppard @JulianOD @reformexposed @Nigel_Farage Not their responsibility they’re utilities, but sure let them risk their job. I work in scc highways I know how this works, the line marking comes under highways which has its own budget. Utilities use their own money. Stay in your lane unless you know the job

[ARndmJoe @ARndmJoe]

@NunyaBisnis9 @reformexposed @Nigel_Farage It’s a Cadent job, the utilities company have no jurisdiction over relining the entire road. That would fall on Amey and their line marking teams

[ARndmJoe @ARndmJoe]

@JulianOD @reformexposed @Nigel_Farage This, any further work ie the repainting of the lines would need client approval. Cadent who did the job aren’t Amey and have no responsibility to reline an entire segment of road. I won’t defend reform but this is purely Cadent doing as instructed.

[ARndmJoe @ARndmJoe]

@LiamSheppard @JulianOD @reformexposed @Nigel_Farage The problem there is, you get penalised for doing work that isn’t scheduled as it has been budgeted elsewhere. The crew on the ground would need to ring their team leader, who would go to the depot supervisor/manager who needs approval from the client(scc).

[Gyll King Post Skip Diplomacy @GyllKing]

Hey - Reform voters!

Last night your party voted against The Employment Rights Bill to ban fire & rehire and zero hours contracts.

They voted against you getting sick pay day one, and against you being protected against unfair dismissal from day one.

This what you want?

[ARndmJoe @ARndmJoe]

@marcus_gilbert @g_gosden The problem is those that are doing it are adults that have long left school or dropped out. You try to educate them and you’re called a woke leftie