Solarbird Feb 1

I literally read this short story in ... probably Asimov's SF, probably in the 1990s. Could've been Analog.

Seriously, though - this was, like, the entire plot. Exactly this. EXACTLY this.

From https://futurism.com/future-society/anthropic-destroying-books :

Anthropic shredded millions of physical books to train its Claude AI model — and new documents suggest that it was well aware of just how bad it would look if anyone found out.

#AI #books #theft #LLM #LLMs #Anthropic #Claude

Anthropic Knew the Public Would Be Disgusted by How It Was Destroying Physical Books, Secret Documents Reveal

Newly unsealed documents suggest that Anthropic was well aware that destroying books to train its AI would look bad.

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Show threadIngvarFeb 1

@moira It's certainly an element in Vernor Vinge's "Rainbows End".

Shovelling books through shredders, scanning the fragments coming out and then recombining using sequence assemble techniques from DNA studies.

Show threadSolarbird Feb 1
@vatine I've also read that, and liked it, but much later. But I don't think I'm conflating stories. For one thing, I remember there was an ending.
Show threadSolarbird 

@vatine But that is exactly the kind of thing, yep.

Maybe it was an earlier Vinge story.

Feb 1 at 7:32amWeb