• hedgehog
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      1 year ago

      From the article:

      The court documents don’t indicate that any rare books were destroyed in this process—Anthropic purchased its books in bulk from major retailers

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      1 year ago

      Even if every book had copies readily available, trashing millions of books is immensely wasteful.

      People decry mass book burnings, but when tech bros do the same shit, they don’t even blink.