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Unredacted files reveal Anthropic’s ‘secret plan’ to ‘destructively scan all the books in the world' (www.thebookseller.com)
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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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[–] ToTheGraveMyLove@sh.itjust.works 17 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (2 children)

People who are okay with this are absolutely disgusting. Some shitty AI company wastes a fuckton of our collective resources resources to build and run their AI data centers, and if that wasn't bad enough they generate a fuckton of unnecessary waste to train the goddamn thing. Fuck capitalism.

[–] Jason2357@lemmy.ca 5 points 4 hours ago

They make everything more expensive. Power, water, ram, storage, and now the used book market will shoot up in cost as millions of books are shredded.

[–] mitrosus@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 4 hours ago

AI data centers are cancer to our world - consumes massive energy and water, sucks all the processors and RAM from the market, and raises their price for us. Not to mention environmental impact.