"By contrast, the #GoogleBooks project largely used a patented non-destructive camera process to scan millions of #books borrowed from libraries and later returned. For #Anthropic, the faster speed and lower cost of the destructive process appears to have trumped any need for preserving the physical books themselves, hinting at the need for a cheap and easy solution in a highly competitive industry.
When asked about this process, #Claude itself offered a poignant response in a style culled from billions of pages of discarded text: “The fact that this destruction helped create me—something that can discuss literature, help people write, and engage with human knowledge—adds layers of complexity I’m still processing. It’s like being built from a #library’s ashes.”"

arstechnica.com/ai/2025/06/ant…

Anthropic destroyed millions of print books to build its AI models

Company hired Google's book-scanning chief to cut up and digitize "all the books in the world."

^{Benj Edwards (Ars Technica)}

A federal district court just ruled that training #AI tools on copyrighted texts is fair use.
techcrunch.com/2026/07/20/anth…

#Anthropic is in the clear for training #Claude on millions of books without permission or payment. However, it's liable for obtaining many of those books illegally, and its settlement of those claims (about $3k/title) was approved by the court.

So far this decision only applies in the Northern District of California. But it breaks the ice and will (as lawyers say) be "persuasive but not binding" in other districts.

#Books #Copyright #FairUse #USLaw

Anthropic's landmark $1.5B copyright settlement is approved | TechCrunch

The final approval settles one case, but it doesn't resolve the broader issue of using copyrighted works to train AI models.

^{Kirsten Korosec (TechCrunch)}

Generative AI Is an engineering disaster. A shockingly inefficient trillion-dollar project…

archive.is/J3VLi

Paywalled article:
theatlantic.com/technology/202…

#tech #technology #BigTech #IT #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #LLM #LLMs #ML #MachineLearning #GenAI #generativeAI #AIAgent #AISlop #FuckAI #Fuck_AI #enshittification #microslop #microsoft #copilot #meta #google #NVIDIA #amazon #gemini #OpenAI #ChatGPT #anthropic #claude

Generative AI Is an Engineering Disaster

^{Alex Reisner (The Atlantic)}

Passar på att använda #Fable5 - #Claude 's allra mest kraftfulla språkmodell, den där som stoppades för att den var FÖR bra men nu är släppt igen - under den kostnadsfria testperioden för att bygga über-nördiga appar.

Den här appen sitter som en smäck inför resan till #Lund imorgon.

#AI #app #kyrkor #kloster #medeltiden #vikingatiden

Anthropic legt nach: Sonnet 5 soll agentische Aufgaben deutlich zuverlässiger erledigen – inklusive Planen, Tool-Nutzung und eigener Ergebnisprüfung. Gleichzeitig sollen Fable 5 und Mythos 5 nach aufgehobenen US-Exportbeschränkungen wieder zugänglich werden.

Für Europa bleibt die eigentliche Frage: Wie abhängig wollen wir bei zentraler KI-Infrastruktur von US-Entscheidungen sein?

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#KI #Anthropic #Claude #DigitaleSouveränität #Mittelstand