Project Panama

First, can you tell us about the key purpose of the seemingly endless downloading and purchasing of books from across the globe by the AI firm?

Various media outlets have been covering how Anthropic has been taking such action as part of an ambitious project named Project Panama.

The books are used to train different large language models or LLMs, uh, but it never seems to end.

Just over the weekend, it was reported that, uh, more than 100 metric tons of Korean language books from a Korean company has been purchased.

their software programs.

But behind closed doors, internal project called Project Panama.

I'd encourage people to look that up.

Anthropic was secretly destructively scanning all the books they could purchase from independent booksellers to feed into their large language models to train it.

And I was reading a news article recently about something called, um, an anthropic project where...

I think it was called Project Panama, and they was-- There's been, like, this weird sales in secondhand books where they've been buying the secondhand books off eBay and just the vast, and almost collating all of human writing and then basically scanning it all in.

And ultimately we're eventually gonna have, and I'm- don't have any doubt about it really, like, a bestseller that's written by AI, and we'll also have possibly in the future number one albums that are not human-created.

And I think the, the journey that we're on with it as a society, there feels like an inevitability about it.

So in January, in January 26, the Washington Post reported AI company Anthropic purch- purchased millions of physical books, cut off their spines, scanned their pages, and disposed of the original.

The project was called Project Panama, and internal documents described it as ambition to destructively scan books on massive scale to train AI systems.

And so I did a little deep dive on that, and I just was wondering if you knew about that, what you thought about that.

Oh, I know about it.

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We need to remember that Anthropic was the one who had this secret Project Panama in which their stated internal goal was to destructively scan every book in the known world.

That's what they wanted to do.

They're running the book.

I wasn't expecting people to get that riled up about it.

Basically, what we did is we knew because of a lawsuit against Anthropic, they had this thing called Project Panama that was their mission to, as they say, destructively scan, uh, all the books in the world.

Not literally all of them, but like a copy of each.

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Or Claude won't even...

but if you ask anything about Claude and it's like about how anthropic like messed up or did something dumb or, or had like project Panama or whatever, and then it, it won't be like, oh, I, it almost takes the fifth.

It's like, I, I can't talk bad about my own company.

That would be like, dude, you're just, you're supposed to be working for me.

Just know that the Chinese government is keeping all your engineered prompts.

So you might want to not do that.

Did you track this story about Project Panama? No, I didn't.

Please.

Like money, information must be our servant, not our master, and especially the way we archive and store information, epistemology as it's basically known.

So AI companies like Anthropic, through their Project Panama, have been purchasing, as I'm noting here, physical books in bulk, cutting off the spines and scanning them high speed for AI training and other needs, and then recycling or destroying the physical copies.

And Anthropic co-founders, it just so happens, Dario Amodei and Jack Clark each have participated at recent Bilderberg meetings, as has OpenAI's Sam Altman.

So while you can't go too far with that and reach too many conclusions, it's definitely true that Bilderberg's fingerprints are involved in this, and that makes sense in terms of my analysis and UK Column's general analysis of Bilderberg, that Bilderberg has become much less about transatlantic relations, uh, and much more about infrastructure of the world governance system, the communication systems, the military systems, the command and control systems, the food systems, things like that, in association with the World Economic Forum, in association with various think tanks and movers and shakers and key intel and other government agencies.

I just wanted to add this one quick thing, but I won't get into it deeply.

We should talk about Anthropic had a program called Project Panama, where they've been acquiring and destructively scanning in millions of physical print books, basically slicing off the spine and scanning them in.

So much for copyright when AI is basically sucking all of these books.

And some people have been liking this to Fahrenheit 451.