This is the magnificent library @AnthropicAI amassed, before pulping it because it gave them a legal copyright loophole.
These people do not understand Civilization.
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Little black girls and girls of color deserve to be seen as soft and sweet
As children who deserve protection
They’re not women they’re children
See them as such
There wasn't any difficult dialogue or word jargon until 3.7
You can complain about the bad presentation of the story and I would agree but if you actually paid attention to the dialogue without rushing through it (which a lot of you did) it's very straight forward
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.
"small mistake" and we're talking about trespassing private school 😭 the fact that he didn't get what he was hoping for after that was an important lesson to him too and he still was VERY lucky, i love hinata but u guys really need to stop treating him like he's 5 years old