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[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🤗

[Alex Veremeyenko @alex_verem]

Anthropic admitted it in court.

[‎🇵🇸 SAVADAVA 🇵🇸 @twt_savadava]

This is like the Great Library being burnt 46,000 times.
This shit is fucking evil.

[evan loves worf @esjesjesj]

Indistinguishable from ISIS destroying art

[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.

[Marxist Leninist Maoist Prosperity Gospel @ASMRxist]

I'ma be real, I think destroying the books is part of the point

[AARON @lidolmix]

we’re losing the ancient texts….LITERALLY

[Evan Luthra @EvanLuthra]

THIS IS F*CKING DISTURBING!!!🤯

A leaked Anthropic document just came out in court. Their own words:

"Project Panama is our effort to destructively scan all the books in the world."

Next line: "We don't want it to be known that we are working on this."

They planned to shred every book on the planet, in secret. And they almost got away with it.

It starts with theft. Anthropic stole 7 MILLION books from pirate sites to train Claude, because their CEO said paying authors was too much of a "slog."

Then the lawsuits hit and they needed a legal way to keep going. So they hired the ex-head of Google Books and sent him to publishers to ask for permission. Publishers said no.

That's when they found the loophole.

Buy millions of real, physical books. Cut the spines off with a hydraulic blade, scan the loose pages, and throw what's left in recycling.

One vendor offered to destroy 2 MILLION books in 6 months. That's 11,000 books a day.

Now the insane part.. destroying the books is what made it legal.

If you scan a book and keep it, that's a crime. If you scan it and shred it, that's fair use. A judge actually approved this, which means the shredder WAS the legal strategy.

They still paid $1.5 billion for the stolen books, the biggest copyright settlement in history. Works out to $3,000 per book.

And the scans are locked in Anthropic's private library forever. Nobody outside the company will ever see them. The authors got a shredded book and nothing else.

The part I can't stop thinking about is that a book on a shelf lasts 500 years without power, wifi, or a subscription, and the AI it was destroyed for gets thrown away in 18 months.

They killed something permanent to feed something disposable.

[Ｈ ｅ ｒ ｏ @ReLLoO]

@PopCrave Destroying the physical copy should be illegal

[Shahanshah of the Internet Age @ChazakielDoremi]

Nobody seems to understand this but I cannot stress enough that a judge told Anthropic that training their AI models didn't constitute copyright violation as long as they 'transferred' the text instead of 'copying' it, legally necessitating the destruction of the books

[Shruti @heyshrutimishra]

WTF

AI companies are purchasing large quantities of used and rare books. Scanning their contents to train models. Then turning the originals to pulp.

The sum of human thought, digitized and shredded.

Every book that gets scanned disappears from the physical world permanently. The knowledge survives only as training data inside a system no one can hold, browse, or resell.

What used to sit on a shelf for centuries now exists as weights in a model that might get deprecated next quarter.

[Pop Crave @PopCrave]

AI companies are reportedly buying up antique books in bulk, scanning them for AI training data, then destroying the physical copies.

[Blitzer Kojiro | The road to 1000 kills @BlitzThePuppets]

PLAYSTATION LOST MY LOYALTY THE MOMENT IT STOPPED SELLING OWNERSHIP

I would have bought Halo: Campaign Evolved on PS5 because I was committed to supporting PlayStation.

Instead, it was included with Game Pass, so I played it on Xbox.

The same will happen with Beast of Reincarnation and Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy.

That is three PlayStation sales lost.

But price is not the real problem.

These releases are digital-only, meaning I am not buying something I can physically own, preserve, lend, resell or place permanently in my collection.

I am paying full price for a revocable license connected to an account, while Sony’s own terms reserve the right to discontinue digital access and delete data it considers dormant.

So why should I pay PlayStation full price for temporary digital permission when Xbox includes the same game in a subscription I already have?

I supported PlayStation because I believed in building a PlayStation collection.

A digital license is not a collection.

It is permission.

And I am no longer paying extra for permission.

PlayStation did not lose me to Xbox exclusives.

It lost me because Xbox offered better value while PlayStation asked for loyalty without offering ownership.

[𝕊𝕡𝕣𝕚𝕟𝕥𝕖𝕣 𝕻𝕣𝕖𝕤𝕤 @SprinterPress]

The market capitalization of U.S. publicly traded companies lost more than a trillion dollars following today's stock market trading.

[Typical African @Joe__Bassey]

This is how it should be 💯

[Sholla Ard 🇰🇪 @sholard_mancity]

GENIUS… OR A DANGEROUS IDEA?🚨

Captain Ibrahim Traoré just declared an end to endless theoretical PhD theses.

His stance: “If you’re an engineer, manufacture or build something real. We will no longer support long papers that produce nothing.”

Brutal reality: Thousands of African PhDs write 300-page theses… then protest outside ministries, begging for jobs. Job consumers, not creators.

Every nation that industrialised rapidly prioritised applied engineering and reverse-engineering first.

Pure theory came later.Some will say: “But European students do PhDs without inventing anything.”

True, because Europe already industrialised centuries ago.

Catch-up economies don’t have the same https://t.co/bhUxDeT83Z Traoré fixing a broken system, or is he overstepping? A conversation that's confusing

[The Spearhead @Spearhead_Af]

Why Do Africans Seek Love From Those Who Don’t Love Us? – Captain Ibrahim Traoré

On July 16, 2026, Burkina Faso President Captain Ibrahim Traoré paid a visit to the city of Ouahigouya in the Yaadga region of his country, and delivered a powerful address to the Burkinabé people, and the people of Africa as a whole.

In this quote from the Yaadga address, Traoré calls out the strange tendency of Africans to constantly seek love and validation from the societies that have been trying to wipe them out for over 400 years.

The definition of a toxic relationship.

[Megatron @Megatron_ron]

NEW: 🇨🇳 China's nuclear fusion research has completed a massive magnet weighing 582 tons.

The goal is an "unlimited energy" artificial sun.

They plan to start the first power generation by 2030.

A safe, CO2-zero ultimate energy race.

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

The U.S. has been significantly weakened by the war with Iran.

This administration depleted our missile defenses, drained our oil reserves, sacrificed our men & women, inflated the price of consumer goods, increased our debt, and neglected our domestic needs…

all for Israel.

[Don Salmon @dijoni]

Uganda president it in South Africa must pay for the destruction of Ugandan citizens property, and South Africa.
Nigeria and Ghana and Zimbabwe and Zambia and Mozambique Also so much for South Africa to pay for the destruction and lives of their citizen property.