Open thread 7/31/2026
An increasing number of videos have annoying AI narration, but the content is still interesting. This is one of them:
The New Neo
A blog about political change, among other things
An increasing number of videos have annoying AI narration, but the content is still interesting. This is one of them:
This was reported about a month ago, but I just heard about it yesterday. Sad news, I think.
“On Monday, court documents revealed that AI company Anthropic spent millions of dollars physically scanning print books to build Claude, an AI assistant similar to ChatGPT. In the process, the company cut millions of print books from their bindings, scanned them into digital files, and threw away the originals solely for the purpose of training AI—details buried in a copyright ruling on fair use whose broader fair use implications we reported yesterday.”
Reportedly, some of the destroyed books were rare. To think of libraries being destroyed to feed AI …
For those who might want to read more, here’s a link:
https://tinyurl.com/5n6rsnmp