<![CDATA[Court filings reveal #Anthropic and #Amazon both ran secret operations to buy millions of rare physical books - scanning the contents to feed into training #AI models, and then permanently destroying them.]]>Court filings reveal and both ran secret operations to buy millions of rare physical books - scanning the contents to feed into training models, and then permanently destroying them.

How long can we allow this cultural theft and erasure masked as 'progress' to continue?

https://act.gp/4fx31Fa

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/topic/134752b1-be84-4f22-8d1f-e636d5714be6/court-filings-reveal-anthropic-and-amazon-both-ran-secret-operations-to-buy-millions-of-rare-physical-books-scanning-the-contents-to-feed-into-training-ai-models-and-then-permanently-destroying-them.RSS for NodeWed, 16 Sep 2026 23:22:18 GMTThu, 27 Aug 2026 10:12:17 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Court filings reveal #Anthropic and #Amazon both ran secret operations to buy millions of rare physical books - scanning the contents to feed into training #AI models, and then permanently destroying them. on Thu, 27 Aug 2026 14:19:50 GMT]]>@passwordsarehard4 @ericschutte @greenpeace Unfortunately, the scans are not publicly available—even for a price—and the scanning process is haphazard. So, information in archives and collections, available to scholars, is being destroyed. Not to mention the books themselves, which are artifacts of publishing (eg, bookbinding, inks, papers, formatting).

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/ntrembath/statuses/117167907813477532https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/ntrembath/statuses/117167907813477532Thu, 27 Aug 2026 14:19:50 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Court filings reveal #Anthropic and #Amazon both ran secret operations to buy millions of rare physical books - scanning the contents to feed into training #AI models, and then permanently destroying them. on Thu, 27 Aug 2026 14:02:44 GMT]]>@greenpeace

Looking to de-Amazon….really just trying to totally quit shopping there. I find the large selection hard to quit. Any suggestions?

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://universeodon.com/users/AudioTinker/statuses/117167840591202203https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://universeodon.com/users/AudioTinker/statuses/117167840591202203Thu, 27 Aug 2026 14:02:44 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Court filings reveal #Anthropic and #Amazon both ran secret operations to buy millions of rare physical books - scanning the contents to feed into training #AI models, and then permanently destroying them. on Thu, 27 Aug 2026 13:35:27 GMT]]>@ericschutte @greenpeace they are allowed to do that, though. They bought the books, they owned them. If they released all the scans it would be better for humanity, as a whole. These rare books were just going to be shelve filler for the 1%’s private study, they weren’t ever going to be opened or read. Humanity lost these books when we allowed them to be rare and collected.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/passwordsarehard4/statuses/117167733302237445https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/passwordsarehard4/statuses/117167733302237445Thu, 27 Aug 2026 13:35:27 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Court filings reveal #Anthropic and #Amazon both ran secret operations to buy millions of rare physical books - scanning the contents to feed into training #AI models, and then permanently destroying them. on Thu, 27 Aug 2026 13:32:04 GMT]]>@greenpeace rather "how dare we" instead of "how long can we" - action > hand wringing - it's the only way out of this hellscape

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/leslie/statuses/117167719995469264https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/leslie/statuses/117167719995469264Thu, 27 Aug 2026 13:32:04 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Court filings reveal #Anthropic and #Amazon both ran secret operations to buy millions of rare physical books - scanning the contents to feed into training #AI models, and then permanently destroying them. on Thu, 27 Aug 2026 13:19:38 GMT]]>@greenpeace Vernor Vinge was right, he pridicted the destructive scanning of books for AI training in Rainbow's End.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/mocm/statuses/117167671103925493https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/mocm/statuses/117167671103925493Thu, 27 Aug 2026 13:19:38 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Court filings reveal #Anthropic and #Amazon both ran secret operations to buy millions of rare physical books - scanning the contents to feed into training #AI models, and then permanently destroying them. on Thu, 27 Aug 2026 12:06:40 GMT]]>@greenpeace disgusting behavior

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/ap/users/115799274634313118/statuses/117167384225413185https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/ap/users/115799274634313118/statuses/117167384225413185Thu, 27 Aug 2026 12:06:40 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Court filings reveal #Anthropic and #Amazon both ran secret operations to buy millions of rare physical books - scanning the contents to feed into training #AI models, and then permanently destroying them. on Thu, 27 Aug 2026 10:27:40 GMT]]>@greenpeace
They are building the evidence for future trials themselves. Every rare book is scanned which is proof they destroyed it.
MAKE THEM PAY !!!! And I don’t mean juist money, hold them responsabel and jail them.

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