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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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[–] setsubyou@lemmy.world 9 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

I read one once where being able to slightly see through the pages was a key part of the plot

[–] 667@lemmy.radio 4 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Which one, if you can recall? I love interactive books.

[–] setsubyou@lemmy.world 5 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

It was called 世界でいちばん透きとおった物語 by Hikaru Sugi, but I don’t think there’s an English translation because this kind of gimmick works a lot better in scripts where all characters are the same size, and a translation that ends up with a comparable arrangement of those letters would be a major pain too.

[–] 667@lemmy.radio 8 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

A slow-burn read by learning Japanese first. This one will take me while.

[–] Sturgist@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

Fuck yeah, I can already reliably recognise like ⅓ of the hiragana set...if there's a multiple choice pick.

I'm taking a course, but if you want to just self study www.kanadojo.com is pretty good, and if you get anki there's a load of free resources to practice listening and reading. Anki is free on android and pc, but costs a bit on iOS. Www.Ankiweb.net