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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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[–] MagicShel@lemmy.zip 26 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

Is this an opportunity to self-publish my own book for $100k per copy and be guaranteed one sale?

[–] Thorry@feddit.org 15 points 2 hours ago

No they will simply steal it, like they usually do.

[–] Gsus4@mander.xyz 3 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Just don't write it in any OS that backs up your stuff to their cloud...you know...for safe keeping...