Bardo

[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.

[Bardo @bardoreye]

@TheIllegit Duffy-evsky

[UBERSOY @UBERSOY1]

I asked Claude Opus 5 to give me top 10 of his favourite novels and this is what he gave:

1. Life and Fate — Grossman
2. Moby-Dick — Melville
3. The Brothers Karamazov — Dostoevsky
4. Austerlitz — Sebald
5. Middlemarch — Eliot
6. Blood Meridian — McCarthy
7. The Man Without Qualities — Musil
8. Demons — Dostoevsky
9. The Leopard — Lampedusa
10. Absalom, Absalom! — Faulkner

[DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican]

Virtually every major Democratic campaign depends on a single private platform for voter, donor, and organizing data.

Yet the ownership, regulatory gaps, and risks surrounding that infrastructure have received almost no public scrutiny.

Apax Partners is what ties together Neville Roy Singham, China involvement, the Democratic party infrastructure, and much more.

[Bardo @bardoreye]

Woah

[Gossip Goblin @Gossip_Goblin]

Pomegranate - premiering in just two hours!

[Patrick Bet-David @patrickbetdavid]

Interesting! 🧐

[Jakob Diepenbrock @jakobdiepen]

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[Bardo @bardoreye]

It's me

[Bob Vagene @PoopDollaHank]

Everyone between ages of 28-34 knew someone in their life that added subwoofers to their car and used “A Milli” as an example for how much they bump

[Bardo @bardoreye]

@ivan_bezdomny Does something like this kill the company long-term?

[Bardo @bardoreye]

https://t.co/KdHiSVDfwm

[Bardo @bardoreye]

https://t.co/KdHiSVDfwm

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

JUST IN: Federal judge approves Anthropic's $1,500,000,000.00 copyright settlement, the largest known payout in U.S. copyright history.

[Bardo @bardoreye]

@ZachFugman Yeah

[Bardo @bardoreye]

@ForgiatoBlow47 @sostalksmoney @TheIllegit

[Bardo @bardoreye]

@TJ_Bongiorno I do IT

[Cernovich @Cernovich]

My goodness.

[Bardo @bardoreye]

@TheIllegit @sneako Duff what's your view?

[Bardo @bardoreye]

@ivan_bezdomny

[Bardo @bardoreye]

@TheIllegit Argue with me

[Bardo @bardoreye]

@Howlingmutant0 @TheIllegit @RealCandaceO Great observation Howling & Duffy

[Bardo @bardoreye]

@mikebolen 👁️👄👁️

[Bardo @bardoreye]

I've been getting soft stops too. Irregardless of the time and I get hit with "We've accomplished a lot! Let's pick back up tomorrow." I disregard and keep going, since the follow up questions and thought trains are tangental but rarely relevant for building. Then I'll get hit with a soft stop again. I type out "I'm not tired, let's keep working" and model proceeds to give 3/10 effort. I get so pissed my flow gets killed.