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[old先 @old_xian]

#19days 画一张帅的丘哥～

[ally 🦋✨🎧⸆⸉ @ally_sheehan]

the world was better without ai

[Nisa ♀ @nisafeminista]

Ladies, imagine someone doing your cooking, cleaning, running errands & endless invisible domestic labor. Imagine how much TIME that would free up for your career and hobbies. For the average male, that IS their reality. Then they turn around and claim women "contribute nothing."

[Charlie D. Becker @charliedbecker]

I'm a second-generation bookseller. My family runs Houston's largest used & rare bookstore and I'm building an AI tool for used bookstores. We got hit by exactly these orders, including a single order for 70 obscure books that made us pause online sales entirely. So I dug in. I don't think this connects the way people want it to.

Every ingredient of the viral story is true. ISBNdb really does advertise sourcing books for AI companies. Anthropic really did destructively scan millions of books though they were mostly acquired through things like library deaccessions, not bookstore inventory. And booksellers really are getting bizarre bulk orders. But "rare" here isn't what you're picturing. It's The Insider's Guide to Metro Denver (1995) and how-to-use-WordPerfect 1991 manuals. Obscure, but often not precious.

When we combed through our orders, nearly every book bought from us was either unavailable on Amazon or listed there at 5, 10, 20x our price on the platform they were purchased on. And the shipments are going to FBA prep companies: which is what you do with a book you're about to resell, not one you're about to cut apart. There is more than circumstantial evidence that this is a well-funded company running algorithmic arbitrage, buying underpriced or out-of-stock books to relist on Amazon at markup. This evidence includes an official denial that they are selling to train AI but I don't want to mention them for several reasons. You can Google it.

That's more mundane than the shredder story. The actual risk is worse, though, because it's quieter: books that don't sell via FBA eventually get liquidated. If we really hold the last copies of some of these (and comparing platforms, it looks like we might) we're feeding them into a portal they may not come back from. No AI company required.

Everyone assumes the internet preserved everything. It didn't. Many of these books have almost no metadata anywhere, just a scattered listings across proprietary databases then nothing. That's what my project is for: building better bibliographic records for these books than exist anywhere else, so we at least have a map of what we stand to lose. So the Library of Alexandria is still burning, just more slowly, and kore from “who cares” than from some cinematic villain.

(I am open to being corrected.)

Full writeup: https://t.co/tHXMH0L3us

[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🤗

[다곰 @dagom_]

눈오는날 베이비들 코디

[m @simp4miw]

reject pax silica NOW❗ bumoto nang maayos sa 2028, awa na lang. kalikasan at kinabukasan natin ang nakataya 🙏🏼

#ShutThePaxNow

[kat ishikawa @katyrmiese]

y'all keep using "more jobs" as a lame excuse, but all that does is show how incompetent you are if the only way you can create jobs is by trading away the country's natural resources. besides, what good are those "jobs" if ppl end up losing access to something as basic as clean drinking water?

[𝒋𝒂𝒏𝒆 🍅 @iluvthrs]

“Huwag kayong maniwala sa matatamis na salita ng mga Amerikano. Negosyo o kalayaan? Bayan o sarili?”— Heneral Luna

#NoToPaxSilica

[News5 @News5PH]

AKBAYAN: PROBE PAX SILICA

Hinihikayat ng Akbayan Party ang Kongreso na maglunsad ng inquiry sa posibleng impact ng pinaplanong AI industrial hub sa New Clark City sa ilalim ng Pax Silica initiative ng United States.

Pinaiimbestigahan ng political party ang transparency ng mga negosasyon kaugnay ng proyekto, ownership structure, regulatory compliance, monopoly safeguards, undue foreign influence, at risks sa critical infrastructure.

Nais din nilang malaman kung maaari itong makapagdulot ng unsustainable demand sa electricity at water resources.

READ: https://t.co/RqcyLlcjT4

[coffee❤ @commardukas]

@tribunephl Stop the bullshit Mr. CEO.

[coffee❤ @commardukas]

@tribunephl Hindi lahat bobo na basta maniniwala sa inyo.

[coffee❤ @commardukas]

@gmanews No to Pax Silica and data centers!!!

[coffee❤ @commardukas]

@PhilippineStar NO to Pax Silica and data centers!

[다곰 @dagom_]

🦀🐂🐟🐟

[ryan | rei/na ☆ save stars! @divisreina]

no. shut it down. nobody wants it. americans don't want it in their soil and they ran here to build it instead. we don't want it either. #NoToPaxSilica

[coffee❤ @commardukas]

@PhilippineStar This is real scary. Sana naman magising na ang mga pilipino.

[coffee❤ @commardukas]

@PhilstarNews We need to stop this.

[coffee❤ @commardukas]

@ABSCBNNews How can we call for a stop to this?