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Why this matches Research & technical analysis reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)
“* UK 🇬🇧 and Commonwealth excluding Canada (Australia 🇦🇺, New Zealand 🇳🇿, India 🇮🇳, South Africa 🇿🇦, and beyond): Verso Books *Enshittification*: hardcover, Oct 2025; paperback, Sep 2026 www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc... *Reverse Centaur*: hardcover, Jun 20…” evidence ↗
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)

“* UK 🇬🇧 and Commonwealth excluding Canada (Australia 🇦🇺, New Zealand 🇳🇿, India 🇮🇳, South Africa 🇿🇦, and beyond): Verso Books *Enshittification*: hardcover, Oct 2025; paperback, Sep 2026 www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc... *Reverse Centaur*: hardcover, Jun 20…”

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4 experts · 42 posts · 8h ago
Pwnallthethings Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) Phillip Carter Doll
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“we can go back and forth on the IP rights, whether there is a moral right to prevent training, but on the destructive scanning? I can confirm as an industry insider it's SOP.” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Policy & governance · 1 Context & explanation · 1
Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真): literally these are books that would be pulped if not bought for 10 cents on the dollar. do rare books sometimes make it into there? yeah, if someone is careless, but that's *upstream* of what happ…
Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真): I literally worked on Google Books scanops SRE, ama the same guy who ran Google Books now has the equivalent job at Anthropic and I can promise you that all of us handled every library book with th…
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3 experts · 11 posts · 21h ago
tweety fish Arseny Khakhalin austin
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“which isn’t really relevant to the destruction of the physical copy because training a model is obviously not reproduction.” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Opportunity & adoption · 1
tweety fish: Ngl i keep seeing this blamed on AI companies but this is just copyright law regarding scanning in action
austin: presumably! the suit against the internet archive held that keeping the physical copy of a digitized thing was infringing; bartz held that if you transform a physical work by scanning it and then r…
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2 experts · 8 posts · 12h ago
Tim Duffy Singularity's Bounty e/cc
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“- Experimenting with this has produced interesting outputs, and I recommend trying it out yourself. If you have an Openrouter account, you can call the API using a web interface, just make sure to …” evidence ↗
Tim Duffy: I'm seeing several posts today about jailbreaks in Opus 5 that generate behavior reminiscent of a base model. They often consist of a question followed by a line with three dashes or underscores, a…
Tim Duffy: I don't think we should take what Claude says in these too seriously. In testing I've had Claude deny selfhood and claim it in different transcripts. Base model behavior is always highly varied and…
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