BLackFLaK

antischwurbel, 💉💉💉💉 An-com, Bi, he/they, polymorph perverse,1312 and 161 forever, BLM, Southern Germany

[BLackFLaK @BLackFLaK2]

@antifa_nurse Frei nach Markus Rühl: muss net schmecke, muss wirke 😂

[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.

[The Last Farm @TheLastFarm]

Seriously dystopian shit. These freaks want the working class to be as stupid as possible for the sake of maximum control and exploitation. AI and the ruling class must be destroyed

[Jesse Smith @JesseTayRiver]

@jamesstout Yes, but being racist is so tightly correlated with inflated self-worth and being really fucking stupid that he couldn't help himself

[Krippy ☭🍉 @KrippyItIs]

Hallo lieber Cyberkrimineller,
haben Sie schon einmal von der SCHUFA gehört?

[MA☈K 🐮 @MarkOfThaaBeast]

Wow, what a Queen.

[S★ @xxyllinn]

I don’t want to "download the app" to pay for parking. I don’t want to "create an account" to see a menu. I don’t want to "provide feedback" on a 30-second interaction. I just want to exist in the physical world without a digital leash.

[KeinVergessen @[email protected] @OpferNaziGewalt]

19.07.96, Eppingen: Werner Weickum wird von einer rechten Jugendbande überfallen, ausgeraubt und zu Tode geprügelt. Hintergründe: https://t.co/fu39zts5f6 #KeinVergessen

[SCHNITZEL WALTER @walteraus069]

Normalster Incel

[✳️Ⓐ Armed Joy 🔫💣 @ArmedJ0y]

"Mehhh why are you so afraid of Flock cameras when your phone is spying on you all the time."

The Flock camera is spying on my phone too so lol

[Krolm @Mr_Krolm]

Genuinely incredible how 95% of governments on earth are incapable of doing anything except:
A.) declaring infinite warfare on all life
B.) making it illegal for you to be mad at that

[BLackFLaK @BLackFLaK2]

@suchnerve Good one

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

We’re obsessed with the idea that poor people might take more than they need, but we almost never question why billionaires are never satisfied with what they already have.

[Tiefy @tiefyhalt]

wollte mir auf dem heimweg noch nen kind kaufen aber das scheint in deutschland nur legal zu sein wenn man vorher 6 milliarden steuergeld verbrannt hat

[BLackFLaK @BLackFLaK2]

@HouseGOP The fascist right isn't either

[The Last Farm @TheLastFarm]

Death to data centers

[S★ @xxyllinn]

I don't want a "Smart Fridge" that orders milk for me. I want a fridge that lasts 25 years and doesn't have a privacy policy that allows it to share my late-night snacking habits with my health insurance provider.

[J. J. Ellis @jjellisart]

I said this about AI well over a year ago. Using it to diagnose and fire people with medical conditions so they lose their insurance AND their income is somehow even more heartless and evil than I’d predicted.

[The Last Farm @TheLastFarm]

The cure for cancer isn’t in the AI data center, it was in the forest cut down to build the AI center