Nevin @SpeedBLAST48

What the hell must I do? Artists just want a place online where platforms don't feed their work to AI. So I built Cara. But people just won't leave us alone. The laws don't help us, the governments don't help us. What are artists supposed to do exactly? 1/

btw anthropic's internal document on this literally said "we don't want it to be known that we are working on this.” it was called project panama. here's exactly what happened: 1: anthropic concluded that books were the cheapest way to build a world-class model because they gave claude curated facts, structured arguments, compelling stories, and writing “an editor would approve of.” 2: once anthropic decided it needed books at enormous scale, its first solution was piracy. it downloaded 7m+ books from online libraries including libgen. the judge later wrote that although anthropic had legal ways to buy them, it chose piracy to avoid what dario amodei called the “legal/practice/business slog.” 3: that piracy created a massive legal risk. so in february 2024, anthropic hired tom turvey, the former head of partnerships for google books, to find a legally safer way of obtaining “all the books in the world.” 4: turvey first contacted major publishers about licensing their catalogs. those attempts didn’t produce agreements, so anthropic chose a route that required no publisher permission: buying millions of physical books through distributors and used-book retailers. 5: within about a year, anthropic spent tens of millions acquiring and scanning millions of books, including many rare and 1/1 titles. one vendor proposal targeted 500,000 to 2 million books in six months. 6: to scan that many books within months, the vendors physically dismantled them. a hydraulic cutter removed each spine. the pages were trimmed to size, fed as loose sheets through high-speed industrial scanners, and converted into searchable PDFs. the paper remains were then sent for recycling. 7: these PDFs were fed into claude as training data. the complete collection became a private, searchable anthropic library that the company planned to “store forever.” the scans aren’t available to the public and were never open-sourced.

Hedgie @HedgieMarkets

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🦔AI companies are bulk-buying rare books, scanning them through high-speed machines that cut the spines off, and shredding the originals. A service called ISBNdb facilitates orders of up to a million books and keeps buyers anonymous. Pre-2022 books are premium because they're

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First trailer for ‘BLADE RUNNER 2099’, starring Michelle Yeoh and Hunter Schafer. Releasing November 25 on Prime Video.

No evil shall escape their sight. Watch the official trailer now. #Lanterns arrives August 16 on HBO Max.

Meet the new face of Gotham. #ClayfaceMovie only in theaters October 23.

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@PlayStation You are killing ownership. You are killing legal preservation. You are killing discoverability. You are killing publishers. You are killing developers. This is a move that might slightly improve bottom lines, but tear down every other aspect of this medium. Well done! You f*d up!

New crew. New story. Same Night City. Get ready to jack back in. Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 is coming Fall, 2026.

Disturbing GTA VI news just dropped. @RockstarGames seemingly confirmed that the potentially biggest entertainment release of the year will be treated as a throwaway consumable. Rockstar Newswire mentions a download code in the box. NO PHYSICAL RELEASE!

#FirstShot #TheBatmanPart2 CC:@e_messerschmidt Here We Go…

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Survive the deranged terror. Resident Evil Veronica reanimates in 2027 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Steam, and Nintendo Switch 2. #REVeronica #ResidentEvilVeronica

Deceive the world yet again. STEINS;GATE RE:BOOT is coming to Nintendo Switch 2, Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 5 on October 29, 2026! Pre-orders will go live at your favorite retailers soon! Check out what STEINS;GATE RE:BOOT is about👇 steinsgate.jp/reboot/en-us/ #SteinsGate #SteinsGateReBoot

Season 8: Sins of Alchemax is imminent! 💥 The Gilded Saint may have purged the Time Plague from Lower Manhattan, but the root of the rot remains. Alchemax Headquarters stands defiant, shielded by a mysterious crimson Chronovium — fueled by a dimension of pure, kinetic force. The stakes have never been higher. Prepare yourselves - the Alchemax conspiracy goes deeper than we ever feared. Season 8 begins on May 15th UTC! Assemble your team and uncover Alchemax's darkest secret!

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Watch the new Story & Cast Reveal Trailer ►Song Name: STRANGER THAN HEAVEN | Artists: Snoop Dogg, Satoshi Fujihara, Ado, Tori Kelly ►STRANGER THAN HEAVEN is coming this winter | Wishlist now on Xbox Game Pass, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox on PC, Xbox Cloud, PlayStation 5, and Steam (links in comments & bio)

Defy the Gods. Watch the New Trailer for Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey and experience the film in theaters 7 17 26.

Logan Paul is something FAR worse than a tourist. He's ruining your hobbies, on purpose, for profit. And he's not alone. youtu.be/W2x-UQpiARc

𝙰 𝚗𝚎𝚠 𝚎𝚛𝚊 𝚘𝚏 𝚎𝚟𝚒𝚕. From the mind of Zach Cregger, director of Weapons and Barbarian. Watch the new teaser trailer for Resident Evil. Filmed for IMAX – in theatres 9.18.

Look fear in the face. Clayface only in theaters this October.