ClockworkDragon

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[ClockworkDragon @clockworkdragxn]

Hello friends! Let me draw your favs 💚

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[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.

[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.

[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🤗

[aria☾⁺₊ @ariariixx]

second greatest cousin reveal after sakusa and motoya

[aya 🏒 @hollanovst]

this is the funniest review yet

[shieru 🦋🌸 @withhualian]

TGCF FANDOM, WAKE UP!!!!!!! 😭😭😭😭
THE 5TH SHORT FILM IS CONFIRMED TO BE THE BATTLE OF THE LANTERNS OMG 😭😭😭😭😭😭

[aria☾⁺₊ @ariariixx]

hinata anytime he goes to the bathroom at a game

[🏮ramen.png🏮 comms on vgen @widvnhak]

World Cup finals vs. World Cup semifinals
#初音ミク

[Academia dos Gamers Oficial @academiadgamers]

"É só uma disputa de terceiro lugar"

Lore de França e Inglaterra:

[MASSLOW 18+ @MASSLOW5]

#Neiljosten | #Erlinghaaland

[Hini Mardi | Commission Open 🌹🌹 @Hini_mardi]

BingQiu in trend.
Didn't see anyone do this, so I cooked it myself. 💥🔥✨
Cre: by me
#svsss #bingyuan #bingqiu #LuoBinghe #ShenQingqiu

[keigo 💥 @trueshoyo]

*haikyuu fans whenever they see a plant growing from cracks in cement* OMG IT’S HINATA SHOYO FROM THE CONCRETE!!!

[Gus Kondo @gustavokondo]

forte candidato a melhor tweet do ano

[daily kagehina @kghndaily]

9&10 and the gay allegations

[🇦🇷🐰AUTOMABUN🐰🇦🇷 @automabunny]

"aw man I don't know from where to start my animation"

The humble key frames:

[Koldan Grey @KoldanGreyArt]

Palmetto Foxes for limited edition box set illustration

#aftg

[moose patriota 🗣🇵🇪 ☾⋆.˚ @moose_letterex]

para los fans de haikyuu esto es como cuando karasuno perdió contra aoba johsai en la primera temporada

[西吸 @xixi10235]

#天官赐福 #TGCF 破茧