Alberto Prinz

[Alberto Prinz @AlbertoPrinzz]

@HeidiBachram Lala Loony!

[Alberto Prinz @AlbertoPrinzz]

@scottygb It’s a bit robotic!

[Barbarian Herodotus @BBHerodotus]

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.

[Alberto Prinz @AlbertoPrinzz]

@Andrew__McP @cleanupbritain @GlosCC Where do they live that they don’t see all the rubbish and flytipping and the consequence of stupud decisions!

[Alberto Prinz @AlbertoPrinzz]

@cleanupbritain @GlosCC Just had some collected. We have a service road that is perfectly suitable for deliveries and emergency services except the council rubbish collection. Oh no! we had to drag it to the main road the lazy bastards. A king sized bed frame and big chair.

[Alberto Prinz @AlbertoPrinzz]

@RadioGenoa Not being funny but why does the entire family and children all need to go to Aldi or any other shop? Masses of people slowing you down getting in the way!

[Alberto Prinz @AlbertoPrinzz]

@Gracie_Blue89 Saw her years ago in Boots (shop) Most miserable person ever.

[Alberto Prinz @AlbertoPrinzz]

@Gracie_Blue89 She’s the British Rosie O’Donnell!

[Alberto Prinz @AlbertoPrinzz]

@SutterlinDan @juanbuis Plus all the pop ups

[Alberto Prinz @AlbertoPrinzz]

@NoFilterSkin And acting like you think no one knows what you’re doing. Scammer and a cheat is what you are. Dragged up without respect for others.

[Ben Graham @BenGrahamUK]

Pakistan has its own space programme, yet we send it £133 million a year in aid while shutting down Britain's largest space telescope because we “can't afford” a few million.

This telescope helped inspire generations of scientists.

If we keep cutting investment in our own scientific infrastructure while other nations push ahead, we'll only fall further behind.

I hope this decision is reversed. Britain should be investing in its future, not dismantling it.

[Alberto Prinz @AlbertoPrinzz]

@mike56200 Bindicated

[Alberto Prinz @AlbertoPrinzz]

@SamaHoole A very switched on passionate young farmer!

[Alberto Prinz @AlbertoPrinzz]

@keithapearson Gestetner-the fluid used to get you woozy! 😵‍💫

[Alberto Prinz @AlbertoPrinzz]

@andyburnham We will believe you once you’ve stopped the boats, slashed the benefits bill, slashed overseas aid and start deporting. We’re just used to people telling us it can’t be done.

[Alberto Prinz @AlbertoPrinzz]

@fesshole Hate live bands at a wedding. Prefer a DJ!

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

A common sight across Britain. Overfilled public rubbish bins with litter strewn across pavements, roads and car parks. We are paying increased amounts of council tax and not even getting the basics back in return.

[Alberto Prinz @AlbertoPrinzz]

@Liberfach0 Stop them FFS! Grow a pair!

[Restore Tyneside @RestoreTyneside]

@andyburnham All of which will make zero difference to the vast majority of British people.

Here five things you should do in your second week in office:

1️⃣ Stop the boats

2️⃣ Stop issuing new visas

3️⃣ End foreign aid

4️⃣ End net zero

5️⃣ Deport millions of people

How about it Andy?

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