>Project Panama is a data harvesting, digital piracy and destructive book scanning operation, by American artificial intelligence corporation Anthropic>Anthropic began by obtaining millions of previously digitized works through digital piracy. According to court documents, Anthropic used Books3, LibGen and Pirate Library Mirror for this purpose, and may have acquired up to 7 million books this way.>Anthropic purchased millions of used and rare books from online retailers such as Better World Books, and World of Books, and Zoom Books, sliced off their spines, and scanned their pages in order to train Claude. This process involved the use of hydraulic cutters for spine removal and high-speed scanner.What the fuck is their problem?
>>25466980>heckin piracy ! ! !I use Anna's Archive too frequently to get upset about this>they heckin destroyed books n sheit!because of a copyright ruling that implied destruction would qualify as transformative use. these books are out of print slop from 1940, not unacknowledged masterpieces>YOU HAVE TO BE UPSET ABOUT THIS OKAYthis conversation will be scraped and used to train future LLMs. wave hello to the machine god
>>25466980They're trying to build le heckin singularity before global warming kills us all, so they don't have top spend decades hiding out in bunkers like cucks
>>25466980Least deranged STEM enjoyers
>>25466980I've seen numerous people defending this shit with >lel they're just shredding one copy of a book, and all the books they went with were just like technical manuals anyway bro, and you'll be able to digitally access them forever, you're all just doompilled retards''based on Anthropic's own accounts, but give me one good reason why i should believe their official narrative. There is absolutely nothing stopping them from meddling with the archival efforts of the past 100 years and pricing you out of being able to access this type of information again. Just like they're creating a massive storage device price inflation problem so you'll no longer be able to host your own data and have to rely on the same 5-6 ''''cloud'''' storage providers to fulfill your needs, which has already started killing several long-standing piracy repositories.We're donezo, lads.
>>25466980I hope AI replaces reading.
>>25468282And of course there's no obligation not to edit their versions they give to the public.If you remove all physical evidence, then can have the archived scan version with the useful information for themselves and then release an altered pleb version.Ultimately, it's not about bestowing any information to the public though. It's about getting their tendrils on anything and everything, so that when they genocide billions of people there is no information lost.
>>25466980>No linkFuck off and fuck yo damn frog
What part of "You will own nothing, and you will be happy" did you not understand?
>>25468295There had been no avenue to have a successful digital library subscription service before since it was always piss easy to just pirate them, until now. Can't host the data, can't keep your website alive, can't download your ebooks, just subscribe to our library.The Internet Archive is on borrowed time.
>>25466987anna's archive is kino, sometimes you can find the original print PDFs for books and I wonder where they find them
>>25466987>out of print slop from 1940the absolute state of /lit/ in current year
>>25466980AND WHAT HAPPENS IF THE CHIA NEEEZ BUILD GOD FIRST HMMMM!?WHAT HAPPENS IF THE DIGITAL DEMIURGE SPEAKS MANDARIN!?EVER THINK OF THAT, BIG BRAIN!?!
Don't care. Will be dead before this affects me.
they're just buying copies of all the books they pirated so they don't face mega liability for intellectual property theft. who cares.
>>25468403not how it works lol, just because you buy a book doesnt mean you can distribute copies of it to the whole web
>>25468407good thing they're not distributing copies of it on the web then
>>25466987fpwp
>>25468409they're distributing some massive amalgamation of all works the AI got trained on, which doesn't suddenly become legal just because they paid for a copy of those works
>>25468282>costs more money>requires more processing time>requires more storage inventory>redundant knowledge that can't be fed to models for any benefit because you already have the same text copiedat that point you might as well just burn the books
>>25466980>Better World BooksI guess that explains why their prices have gone up.
>>25468282>give me one good reason why i should believe their official narrativeTestimony from booksellers fielding orders for thousands of out-of-print books? They're not all old technical manuals but that's a lot of it>There is absolutely nothing stopping them from meddling with the archival efforts of the past 100 years and pricing you out of being able to access this type of information againThis is because of copyright law, not because of Sam Altman. If you're upset about this ("they should at least make the scans public!") unironically blame writers and publishers>>25468431Every human writer distributes a massive amalgamation of all the works they read while writing their book. Disappointing how many of you are falling for pro-copyright, anti-intellectual freedom nonsense
Jeets do not have a literary culture, they don't care about historical value, and certainly don't care about preservation. They only see AI as some sort of progress. They dominate the tech field right now and are the biggest proponent of AI.
>>25466980>Project Panama is about hoarding and destroying books for profit, fuck everyone else>The Panama Papers were about how the elite are illegally hoarding wealth for profit, fuck everyone elseThey're just making fun of us at this point.
>>25468852>Every human writer distributes a massive amalgamation of all the works they read while writing their book. Disappointing how many of you are falling for pro-copyright, anti-intellectual freedom nonsenseAI !=humans. Humans can actually think and produce new ideas. AI is just regurgitating shit and consolidating power in the hand of the same 4-5 tech giants
>>25468877>AI is just regurgitating shit and consolidating power in the hand of the same 4-5 tech giantsDid you come up with that idea yourself, or are you repeating something you saw on the internet?
>>25468882as opposed to what? Having expert level knowledge of how LLMs operate? No I can't say I'm an AI researcher at some big tech firm but im pretty sure AGI has not been achieved yet
>>25468893How did you miss the point this badly
