Myette Ware

change . transform . transcend
John 1:1

[Myette Ware @myetteware]

Love is patient and kind.

[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.

[Myette Ware @myetteware]

@DavidWolfe Lying

[Myette Ware @myetteware]

@NSFWM8 @DC_Draino It’s phase 1 out of how many??

[Financelot @FinanceLancelot]

"If liquidity goes down at all in 2025, markets will crash."

"There is one of the greatest global refinancing needs we've ever seen (in 2025)."
https://t.co/RhEWHGaktg

[Mike Investing @MrMikeInvesting]

🚨 BREAKING NEWS 🚨

IN NVIDIA’S 10-K FORM FROM FEBRUARY THEY STATED THAT THEY ARE USING FUTURE EXPECTED GAINS INTO THEIR CURRENT INCOME FORMS

THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT #ENRON DID WHICH IS CALLED MARK-TO-MARKET ACCOUNTING

$NVDA COULD BE NEXT TO COLLAPSE LIKE $SMCI & $CSCO DID…

[Financelot @FinanceLancelot]

US 10 Year Yield has broken out. The trend is now clear, rates are going up in this recession like 1968.

This is something we haven't seen in 50 years.

[Nick Gerli @nickgerli1]

3) Dallas is another market starting to get hit. Listings in DFW metro are up to almost 26,000.

We haven't seen that level of supply in Dallas area since at least 2017 as well.

Values in Dallas down about 3-5% from peak, depending on location.

Acess the inventory chart for Dallas here: https://t.co/ZLev7Ytt1U

[Nick Gerli @nickgerli1]

Texas housing supply has spiked to highest level since at least 2017.

Active listings are up 25% YoY, and a massive 263% from the pandemic low.

Texas is no longer in an inventory shortage. And is now over-supplied.

Cities in Texas with the most excess supply:

Austin: 42% inventory surplus
Dallas: 39% surplus
San Antonio: 38% surplus

[Jim Rickards @JamesGRickards]

My interview with @menlobear on my new book #MoneyGPT. Includes an in-depth discussion of abductive logic, which is non-programmable. That's the fatal flaw in AI/GPT systems that could trigger market crashes. We offer solutions for everyday investors.
https://t.co/bwPfO70MOC

[Myette Ware @myetteware]

@menlobear RFJ undermines this strategy. Reasonable food standards mean lower margins

[Myette Ware @myetteware]

Wow this seems unusually rushed. Did the Fed pump and dump the US dollar?

[Financelot @FinanceLancelot]

🚨BREAKING: The Federal Reserve's emergency BTFP dropped by a shocking $30 billion this week, leaving only $26 billion left.

Jerome Powell is pulling the liquidity rug away to trigger a crisis, exactly like Feb 2020.

[Inverse Cramer @CramerTracker]

@Jason Elon is going to buy OpenAI for pennies on the dollar in 18 months

[Myette Ware @myetteware]

Here’s an idea: A reboot of The McLaughlin Group.. with @RonPaul

[Myette Ware @myetteware]

My hustle is finding the good in everything. It’s a relentless neurotic obsession.

[Myette Ware @myetteware]

Truth, like medicine can state bitter more often than sweet. Try to find the sweetness within the bitterness.

[Myette Ware @myetteware]

Fasting is a time machine.

[Robert Kiyosaki @theRealKiyosaki]

Gold is God’s $. Gold has magical, spiritual, & mysterious power. Gold is stored financial energy and why for centuries humans have sought, bought, & fought for it. Gold attracts weath, good luck, & bad luck. Treat Gold with respect & God may bless you with gold’s financial magic.

[Nick Gerli @nickgerli1]

The Airbnb collapse is real.

Revenues are down nearly 50% in cities like Phoenix and Austin.

Watch out for a wave of forced selling from Airbnb owners later this year in the areas hit hardest by the revenue collapse.

[Myette Ware @myetteware]

The easiest way to say the truth is to tell a joke.