In the filings, Anthropic states, as reported by the Washington Post: “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.”

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[–] azimir@lemmy.ml 19 points 4 weeks ago

This was literally covered in Rainbow's End by Vernor Vinge.

It's all part of the whole storyline we're stuck in:

Sci-Fi Author: In my book I invented the Torment Nexus as a cautionary tale.

Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torment_Nexus