IncarnatedIntoChaos

Joe Rogan figured it might just be a conspiracy theory that AI companies were secretly buying millions of books, scanning them, and destroying the originals. Then Jamie looked it up. It’s 100% real. ROGAN: “Oh my god, it’s true.” The deeper they dug, the more upset Rogan got. Anthropic had an internal code name for the operation: “Project Panama.” THE INTERNAL MEMO SAID: “Project Panama is our effort to destructively scan all the books in the world.” “We don’t want it to be known that we are working on this.” ROGAN’S REACTION: “Meaning they know that they’re doing something that will cause people to f***ing freak out and revolt.” “The training data is other people’s work. It’s books. That’s what’s insane.” “The idea that you could… burn all the books so that your company succeeds and other ones don’t is the problem we’re talking about.” WHAT HAPPENED: Anthropic needed a mountain of books to train its AI. So it bought millions of them. Workers cut the spines off, scanned every page, and threw the books out when they were done. They wanted to keep this a secret, but then a group of authors sued in a case known as Bartz v. Anthropic. To Rogan’s dismay, the judge ruled the scanning was “fair use,” so Anthropic was allowed to do it. Where the company got in trouble was the pirated stuff. On top of the books it bought, Anthropic had downloaded millions more from pirate sites for free, and the judge wouldn’t let that go. That ended up costing them $1.5 billion, the biggest copyright settlement in U.S. history, or about $3,000 per pirated book.

Adam Carolla tells The Atlantic to “F*CK OFF” and “EAT SH*T” for demanding you forgive the people who tried to destroy your life over a COVID shot. He shows their previous headlines on the screen, and it’s not pretty. CAROLLA: “Of course all the people who wanted everyone drawn and quartered for not getting vaccinated or wearing a mask want a f*cking amnesty.” “Suck my dick, f*ck off, Atlantic, and eat sh*t, because you guys all deserve whatever the f*ck you’re getting.” “BUT THE MAIN THING YOU’RE GETTING IS NO ONE’S GOING TO LISTEN TO YOU EVER AGAIN.” THE ATLANTIC THEN: “The Anti-Vaccine Right Brought Human Sacrifice to America” “Unvaccinated People Need to Bear the Burden” “Vaccine Refusers Don’t Get to Dictate Terms Anymore” “Some Americans No Longer Believe in the Common Good” THE ATLANTIC, YEARS LATER: “Let’s Declare a Pandemic Amnesty” “We need to forgive one another for what we did and said when we were in the dark about COVID.” First of all, forgiveness comes AFTER you apologize. Your headline should be “We’re sorry. We acted like monsters.” Not “we were in the dark about COVID” and didn’t know any better. You didn’t know any better because you CENSORED people like us. Screw off Atlantic. No Amnesty.