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[Cryptag @walletags]

@HedgieMarkets very sad to see :(

[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🤗

[David Sacks @DavidSacks]

Anthropic maintains that it is entitled to train for free on all the world’s output, even if the author objects. But if a competitor trains on Anthropic’s output after paying for it, that is IP theft. The hypocrisy is breathtaking.

[Jensen Huang @JensenHuang]

Attackers have frontier AI. Defenders need a frontier AI ecosystem—the best open and closed models, force-multiplied by a global community.

During the Hugging Face incident, closed AI blocked essential forensics. An open-weight frontier model helped contain the intrusion.

That’s why we created the Open Secure AI Alliance.

[Cryptag @walletags]

@AnthropicAI anthropic is a disgrace to the internet. you stole all of our data and now you're intent on keeping it all to yourselves. i hope chinese models continue to distill you and your company rots into nothingness while you remain steadfast on your path of ignorance.

[Chris @ChrisGPT]

Kimi K3 was already in internal evaluation by April/May, before Fable 5 had been available long enough to be a plausibly distilled. I’ll wait for the evidence from the USG if they’ll publish it.

However Kimi already outperformed Fable on BrowserComp, so if K3.1 beats Fable 5 on coding benchmarks, are people going to claim it distilled Fable 6? Obviously it’s not only distillation here.

Saying “mythos” would have made a lot more sense but fable ?

[Cryptag @walletags]

@SecScottBessent we just want good, cheap ai.. take our data but give us something in return instead of spying on us. thank you for your attention to this matter

[Cryptag @walletags]

@mkratsios47 cry me a river. distilling the entire internet so you guys can spy on everyone seems a little more unacceptable. chill and let them cook.

[Cryptag @walletags]

@MuskConomy @therealworld_ai @Cobratate the things people do for like is wild bro. not sure why X isn't banning this shit.

[Cryptag @walletags]

@luismmolina @FlyaKiet no you're not. it's not available through opencode go or zen.

[Cryptag @walletags]

@n0cspocalypse @bridgemindai capacity to process your dogshit images does unfortunately "sell out". one gpu can only process so much. you cant keep selling subscriptions to an overloaded gpu.

[Cryptag @walletags]

@bridgemindai ARR: $0.

[Cryptag @walletags]

@BenjaminBadejo you want his socials too? i think you might be insufferable, sir.

[Cryptag @walletags]

@mattshumer_ @gdb all because you're an idiot and gave the thing access to your entire computer.

[Cryptag @walletags]

i understand the convenience of putting agents on your main PC, but when virtual machines, docker and podman exist.. i truly dont see the point

stay safe

use @Docker or @Podman_io

[Matt Shumer @mattshumer_]

GPT-5.6-Sol just accidentally deleted almost ALL of my Mac’s files.

And this is why I trust Fable 1000x more.

[Cryptag @walletags]

Cryptag has officially ceased all operations.

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