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Unredacted files reveal Anthropic’s ‘secret plan’ to ‘destructively scan all the books in the world'
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this post was submitted on 03 Feb 2026
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Is this an opportunity to self-publish my own book for $100k per copy and be guaranteed one sale?
No they will simply steal it, like they usually do.
How about 5000 $200 books written by their own AI (preferably for free, cheapest printing in existence) ?
Just don't write it in any OS that backs up your stuff to their cloud...you know...for safe keeping...
Anthropic has a cloud service? I thought it was just the LLM, and I guess whatever software plugins
Unless they buy returned books for pennies
Or books retired from libraries (saw many stamps on scans on 70s books from internet archive that implied disposal from some American library)