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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 0 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

The resources were wasted by everyone involved. Stop defending this bullshit.

[–] astro@leminal.space 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

No, I won't stop calling things like I see them, and I am unlikely to see them differently unless presented with an actual argument (premise, claim, evidence, impact) that amounts to more than "no u"

[–] ToTheGraveMyLove@sh.itjust.works 1 points 56 minutes ago* (last edited 55 minutes ago)

How is destroying millions of books not wasting them? Use your goddamn brain you troll.