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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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[-] Teal@lemmy.zip 7 points 5 days ago

AI is not my thing. I don't really appreciate these companies scanning everything under the sun, but this is a case where Google did it better. They used a custom scanner that didn't require books to be destroyed in order to scan.

[-] slowcakes@programming.dev 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

That's what they tell you, but really they hire cheap labor working for pennies in poor countries flipping books. Do you really believe google has Infrastructure to scan all the books in the world in decent amount of time, because I have bridge to sell.

[-] Magnum@infosec.pub 2 points 4 days ago

I have the perfect thing that goes beautifully with your bridge. Sir, have you ever heard of the Eifel Tower?

[-] slowcakes@programming.dev 1 points 4 days ago

Funny thing it actually got sold twice by them same guy for the scrap metal.

[-] Magnum@infosec.pub 1 points 4 days ago

You can make it a third!

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