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After seeing a post on it yesterday, I’ve looked more deeply into Anthropic’s purchasing and destruction of millions of used books.
They spent tens of millions of dollars acquiring and destroying books to train their AI model, Claude.
They knew, from the beginning that it would be unpopular. They knew what they were doing, was wrong.
An internal memo from 2024 stated:
“Project Panama is our effort to destructively scan all the books in the world.”
“We don’t want it to be known that we are working on this.”
Why used books?
Companies like Anthropic and Meta found it impractical to gain permission from authors and publishers to use their work.
So instead, they stole their work to train their product through mass purchases of used books and through pirating them from the internet.
The authors of these works, didn’t receive a dime for their efforts. These companies stole the hard won literary talent of others to train machines to replace the victims of their theft.
Anthropic cofounder Ben Mann personally downloaded countless books for this purpose from LibGen, a book pirating website.
When a new book piracy website debuted in 2022, Mann sent an email sharing the link with his employees stating: “just in time!!!”
Meta employees were wary about the piracy of books, with one engineer writing, “Torrenting from a corporate laptop doesn’t feel right.”
Anthropic purchased millions of books, in batches of tens of thousands from Better World Books and U.K.-based World of Books.
They then used a “hydraulic powered cutting machine” to slice off the spines of these books before scanning them. Finally, the remains of these books were picked up for recycling.
Feel free to use AI, it’s a free country.
But remember that, if you use Claude, that Anthropic has committed a great wrong, and they knew that they were doing it from the beginning.
Below is an image, from a court case, of a warehouse full of used books, that instead of being held and read by you and your children, have been destroyed forever.
AI is inevitable, but spend your money on the companies who do good, and do not knowingly commit evils.
May the most moral company win.
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Adani Enterprises has planted over 1.6 million trees across 568 hectares at the PEKB coal mine in Chhattisgarh's Surguja, with a target of 4 million trees by 2030, turning mined land into green cover.
@connectgurmeet Mr. Gurmeet, If Rakesh Jhunjhunwala did not take that 10L loan @ 28% or so interest, when he started off, I doubt if he would become the big bull.
CJP Protests are over
As expected, citizens of India are furious over these filthy mouth so called young female brigade
A huge demand is erupting in every house hold to know them & about their families
Every educated & civilised nationalist wants them to be punished or at-least shamed publicly
They want their ideology to be discussed & known to everyone
Their videos are all over the place
Their choice of words are haunting them as all of them have gone underground
Some have deactivated their Instagram accounts & disappeared from social media
Some have gone into hiding
Some are not even reporting to work
Some are living a undercover disguised life now
As I mentioned earlier, social media prints and internet presence never faids
It will haunt them for life now
Most important, the same so called CJP leadership is nowhere to save them
Karma is a Bitch
@AlongImna NEET students r preparing 2b doctors. Any idea how much blood, sweat & tears go into that? How many of the protestors looked like they went thru the gruelling preparation? Fun frolic loving papa ki beta & pari came in to enjoy. Look at their behaviour & language? Justify it ??
Do you all remember how Rahul Gandhi and sections of the Congress ecosystem normalized abusive language against PM Modi?
Over time, that rhetoric seemed to find its way into parts of the mainstream discourse. During the recent CJP protests, abusive slogans and content directed at the Prime Minister were circulated and amplified by several platforms, making it appear increasingly acceptable to use such language against the country's elected leader.
Sorry to say, but using abusive vocabulary against your own Prime Minister is not the same as standing up for your demands. Democracy allows dissent, but abuse is not a substitute for debate!
@RealNatural7@AlongImna exactly, and that image stayed with me.
and they kill the pig here by shoving a hot iron rod up its ass. This is what I have heard.
@HinduUnityBD Well the honourable Bangladeshis went in & publicly stole the undergarments of Sheikh Hasina & displayed it as trophies. As a Bangali I felt violated & ashamed.
@sunandavashisht The kid of Family Man heard saying "mother****"? Well that is normalized now. The advent of this Punjabi-Haryanvi excess (language used by the dehatis) has become mainstream.
Make her popular, her photo should be circulated to every phone so everyone can recognize her. She not only abused our honorable PM but she also abused the PM of Italy for no reason.
TBH, looking at this new Generation, I don't think we will survive another 50 years! 🥺
Dear CJP,
This isn’t a victory.
Not for democracy, not for the youth, and certainly not for India.
Stooping to sexist slurs and hurling personal abuse at the Prime Minister isn’t activism, it’s a disgraceful display of disrespect. Dissent is a democratic right, but misogyny and vulgarity are not.
Shouting the loudest with cheap insults doesn't prove strength or intellect; it only reveals a lack of character and substance.
History won't remember the noise. It will remember those who stood with dignity.
Country First. Always.
Jai Hind 🇮🇳
@rishibagree Similar "kids" go drunk driving & run over hapless people only to have their "papa & family" bail them out. They pay millions to enrol for PAID medical / engineering degrees. They don't care. All this is fun & frolic.
Students who could not qualify would be tensed.