Tinsyaz | SEO Enthusiast

Digital marketer, SEO enthusiast, copywriter, reader and a wife • Manage to increase 124% organic traffic (138K / month) in a year 📨 [email protected]

[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.

[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.

[Valor Mental 🧠 @valormental]

Según el minimalismo japonés, lo que guardas “por si acaso” no es aleatorio.

Es un reflejo de los miedos, apegos y versiones antiguas de ti que todavía ocupan espacio en tu vida.

1. Ropa que no usas =...

[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.

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

It's liberating to realize that you don't need a dramatic reason to change your life. It's perfectly reasonable to wake up one day, say "this no longer works for me," and make a change. New standards. New habits. New people. New career. You can change direction whenever you want.

[Dj ᥫ᭡ @jareeRExo]

I’ve realized the people who changed my life rarely told me what to do. They just lived in a way that inspired something new in me.

[𝕐o̴g̴ @Yoda4ever]

If it didn't move, I would have thought it was just a plushie..🐹🧸😅

[𝙤𝙡𝙞𝙫𝙚𝙧★ @olivvrszn]

I hate when people at work ask you what books you are reading for professional development. I am reading books to counteract the effects of being professionally developed. I am reading books that bring me back to being human.

[Tinsyaz | SEO Enthusiast @tinsyaz]

Easy to start, hard to sustain.
The mental load, constant environment change, the burnout, fast adaptation.

[Tinsyaz | SEO Enthusiast @tinsyaz]

Orang selalu nampak kerja digital marketing sebagai senang.

Husband pernah cakap kat orang yang dia kenal: kerja macam Fatin tu kena ada minat. Kalau tak minat, memang takkan dapat buat kerja macam tu

Absolutely agree!

[aether @bluewdrift]

when I was in Bulgaria l asked my friend what she did for a living and she said art" and said "that's cool you can pay your bills with art" and she looked at me weird and said
"I work at a cafe. Art doesn't pay my bills. It gives me life and it's what I do for living. It's very sad your culture calls your job your living."And it is pretty sad when you put it that way.

[aether @bluewdrift]

There is a Japanese Legend that says:

"Whether it's a machine, a house, or a relationship. Maintenance is always cheaper than repairing." What you don't maintain, you eventually lose.

[邸珥菲 @SAIBdelvi]

Fun fact, you can be ambitious as heck and still have no interest to defeat others.

Since in your eyes, the only things that exist are you & your dreams. Nothing else matters.

That's why you only run and run to your goal and forget competition with anyone else.

[aether @bluewdrift]

People who reach a high level of awareness become unsociable. Crowds drain them. Noise overwhelms them. Small talk feels like work. They chill different. A cozy room. Two people they trust. Good food. Music. Conversations that actually mean something. That's where they feel alive. Depth over noise. Because for them... peace feels like home.

[Summie's write @RuthSummie]

The reason I want to be a writer is because

Sometimes I consume a piece of media, a book or TV show, and I am so overwhelmed by how it touches me. And I become enamored by the idea that someone out there, a writer, created this.

[Tinsyaz | SEO Enthusiast @tinsyaz]

Back then husband sangat tau kita suka Lush. So dia belikan Lush sebelum balik kerja as buah tangan HAHA. Tapi lepas tengok trend Lush Freshness Sale setiap January 50% OFF, memang dah pesan tak payah beli buah tangan.

Nanti beli kat sini ja time ada offer, lagi jimat 🤣

[Blake Burge @blakeaburge]

Major cheat code for life: Assume good things are still ahead. You are not behind. You are not too late. You are not disqualified by your past. One new season can change the entire story. Keep showing up with belief. The best chapters are often written after the hardest ones.

[S. @sarramonez]

Sebenarnya dalam hidup ni takde satu perkara yang melayakkan kita untuk kita rasa bagus dari orang lain pun. Nak kongsi ilmu is fine but to think we’re better than others ni i rasa baik you don’t have to sebab nampak memalukan diri sendiri. Orang tengok pun diaorang gelak.