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2026-07-30 15:38:24

cwebber@social.coop

DB 🌱💦 wrote the following post Wed, 29 Jul 2026 17:42:05 +0200

Photo of a huge warehouse with rows and rows of tables covered in thousands of boxes of books.

This is the magnificent library Anthropic amassed, before destroying it because it gave them a legal copyright loophole.

#Anthropic #AI #Books #Culture #Tech #LLMs #Civilization

It's worse, because this isn't a warehouse being filled and pulped once, but over and over again.

2026-07-30 16:16:09

Woozle Hypertwin

woozle@toot.cat

@cwebber ye gods

Can we pulp the billionaires now?

2026-07-30 17:02:34

WTL

WTL@mastodon.social

@cwebber @dbattistella It is absolutely disgusting.

2026-07-30 17:33:13

Neil Moffatt

NicelyManifest@mastodon.social

@cwebber The complete absence of care for ANYTHING except money making is way into criminal territory in my view.

The decision makers behind this are toxic to our species and the planet.

2026-07-30 18:47:44

Rob Hooft

rwwh@mastodon.social

@cwebber with the speed new slop books hit the virtual shelves, it should not take long before this process is eating its own dogshit.

2026-07-30 19:03:44

Michael Potter

mpotter@social.coop

@cwebber It's like an evil Archive.org or Project Gutenberg. This, by the way, is why I support certain... non-mainstream digital libraries. I don't believe in stealing books, but I do believe in preserving access to their knowledge and I don't have faith in current leadership to protect that.

2026-07-30 19:09:39

George Liquor, American

liquor_american@universeodon.com

@cwebber Straight-up evil

2026-07-30 19:50:46

claus

claus@fosstodon.org

@cwebber How do you know that?

2026-07-30 20:03:17

Amber :neodog_box:

puppygirlhornypost2@transfem.social

@cwebber@social.coop I wish Vashta Nerada were real. It would at least lead to some very interesting news regarding Anthropic

2026-07-30 20:03:18

arifa509

arifa509@mastodon.social

Nice!

2026-07-30 20:41:20

emilyskidsister

emilyskidsister@hachyderm.io

@cwebber its unconscionable to be destroying them at this scale without them being made available publicly.

2026-07-30 21:37:15

Fardels Bear

riggbeck@mastodon.social

@cwebber

Pure evil.

2026-07-30 22:47:43

Vanni Di Ponzano ⁂🚴 ❤️ ☕ 🍎

bici@mastodon.social

@cwebber

Fahrenheit 451

2026-07-31 00:23:46

*_jߍyrope

jrp@hub.kliklak.net

@Christine Lemmer-Webber Whats the source of your info?