Stjepan Crncic

Software developer

[Stjepan Crncic @SteveBlack989]

@LinusEkenstam @altshoob @mattiaswikman https://t.co/Vn3zoxaR0e

[Stjepan Crncic @SteveBlack989]

@LinusEkenstam @mattiaswikman https://t.co/c0lHsVgmIq

[Brian Roemmele @BrianRoemmele]

Some folks don’t believe that a “principled AI company” would destroy books after they suck out all the information for their models, even one-of-a-kind books and manuscripts.

Here it is admitted in open court.

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Politileech

[raina douris @RahRahRaina]

one of the only "good" things about AI is that it is exposing how absolutely checked out so many people are

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@elonmusk I love it and I’m so sad we don’t have it in the EU.

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@PovilasKorop Used to it? I forgot all about the 5h limit. I hope I’ll never have to face that deamon again.

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@LaughingChu @charliedbecker Do tell!

[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.

[Hedgie @HedgieMarkets]

🦔AI companies are bulk-buying rare books, scanning them through high-speed machines that cut the spines off, and shredding the originals. A service called ISBNdb facilitates orders of up to a million books and keeps buyers anonymous. Pre-2022 books are premium because they're free of AI-generated text. A federal judge ruled the practice is fair use because eliminating the original means only one copy exists at a time. Anthropic hired the former head of Google Books partnerships to obtain "all the books in the world."

My Take
This got to me. A bookseller told 404 Media that rare books with almost no surviving copies are being fed into this pipeline. Books that survived wars, fires, and centuries of handling are being shredded so an AI can learn to write a better marketing email.
ISBNdb's website literally says "'AI company destroys two million books' is not a headline that generates sympathy," and they still built an entire business around making it happen quietly. They offer NDAs as a feature. They coach clients to call it "digital preservation."

I've covered AI companies scraping the internet, torrenting libraries, and stealing music. This is worse because it's irreversible. You can re-upload a website. You can reprint a bestseller. You can't replace the last three copies of an 18th-century botanical text once someone shreds them for training data. And the judge said it's legal. So it's going to accelerate.
"We shred rare books and offer NDAs so nobody finds out" is a legitimate business model in 2026. What a timeline.

Hedgie🤗

[Santiago @svpino]

Codex migrated my most important repository from Claude Code in under 10 minutes.

Every skill, sub-agent, and command is now Codex-first.

I had to manually reconnect a couple of MCP servers, but that took a minute.

I already tested a couple of skills, and everything works. I will test the rest when I'm ready to run them.

If I had known it was that easy, I would have migrated away from Claude Code much earlier.

@AnthropicAI, I love your models. I love Claude Code. But I'm not willing to keep sending you money while you keep lobbying the government to stifle your competitors, and you clearly don't care about us.

I've never seen a company that gives so little regard to its customers. You know we need you and are willing to accept your abuses, and I think you've been taking advantage of that.

Well, I'm not playing anymore.

I hope you find your way, and I'd be happy to consider you again when you do.

Until then 👋

[Stjepan Crncic @SteveBlack989]

@thsottiaux Don’t hardcode git UI to GitHub. I would love to be able to connect my Bitbucket.

[Stjepan Crncic @SteveBlack989]

@_Jaredad @TouchlineX Quiters mentality. People have to be tougher than than and sometimes do the hard thing that doesn’t excite them. Most of footballers are spoiled brats without integrity. It’s good for them to play this match.

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@theo Do you know another enterance?

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@thsottiaux It’s better this way. Upgrading to $200

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@robj3d3 They are going to release opus 5 in just about the same time when they take fable out.
It’s going to be tiny little bit better than gpt5.6 and will cost tiny little bit less.
They are taking lessons from OpenAI handbook.

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@finkd who are you?

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@ajambrosino GM

[Stjepan Crncic @SteveBlack989]

@angrycryptoshow $ADA was early. Maybe even ahead.

But being the innovator means nothing if others copy your ideas and create more real-world value with them than you do.

That’s the frustration with Cardano.

Technically strong. Still not translating into investor value.

[Stjepan Crncic @SteveBlack989]

@TrollFootball It's been a shitty World Cup so I don't care.

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@jeffrey_way Hybrid of 1 and 3