In today's Washington Post, there's an article (archived version in link) which reports on details of Anthropic's secret Project Panama plan, which was Anthropic's effort to destructively scan a copy of "all the books in the world" for use in AI training. Having just skimmed over the Ars Technica article from seven months ago linked here, it's not immediately clear to me which details of the project are being newly reported on by the WaPo and which can be inferred from prior reports.
by MiddletownBooks
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It was and is inevitable. How we respond and what it means isn’t.
Man this whole thing just keeps getting worse. The fact that they called it “Project Panama” like some kind of spy operation is wild – really shows how they knew this was sketchy from the start
These companies just steamroll through copyright law and then act surprised when people get mad about it