IMO it’s always great to hear new young Talents

Source: https://loops.video/v/fQjMoT4mCs ✨

# Why books instead of the internet?

Internal planning documents suggest Anthropic executives believed the initiative would lead to higher quality communication and address AI model collapse - a kind of degradation that occurs when AI trains on text contaminated by its own output...

# The legal reckoning

Project Panama only became public through thousands of pages of court documents unsealed in a copyright lawsuit brought by a group of authors, who alleged Anthropic illegally used their work to train Claude.

In 2024, a group of authors, led by novelist Andrea Bartz and nonfiction writers Charles Graeber and Kirk Wallace Johnson, hit Anthropic with a class action lawsuit, alleging the company violated copyright laws by using pirated books to train its AI model.

Last month, Anthropic - currently valued at US$965 billion (€875 billion) - agreed to pay $1.5 billion (about €1.3 billion) to settle the case, covering about 500,000 eligible works...

Meta, OpenAI, Google and Microsoft are also facing copyright lawsuits from authors making similar allegations of piracy. Several authors who opted out of the class action settlement have individual cases pending against Anthropic, too.

Source [web-archived]

Related: https://lemmy.world/post/50785389 (Amazon bought a shipment of rare books so it could scan and destroy them to train AI...)

The AIs will exceed humans in taste and intuition...
The AIs will be better teachers than the humans. In any case, there won’t be a human audience for expository work of frontier math.
No human needs to understand any of it...

Source [web-archive]

Absolute nonsense. I am sorry, but... is it appropriate to not consider the author sick or having some mental disorder?
It seems like the person has no idea what they are talking about, or just too sarcastic to the point of idiotism.

During the Anthropic lawsuit, Tom Harvey, who previously participated in the creation of Google Books before leading Anthropic's "Project Panama" digitalization project, confirmed that the AI firm hired several document scanning companies. Datamation Information Services, which offers high-volume, non-destructive, and destructive book scanning services, was one of them. The former method employs different tools, like overhead scanners, flatbed scanners, or V-shaped imaging systems. The latter method, on the other hand, would have personnel gut the books and feed the individual pages into a high-speed industrial scanner. Logically, AI companies opt for the destructive route since it is more efficient and lower-cost. The result is the destruction of millions of books.

Obviously, printed books represent a treasure trove of information for AI. However, many debate the ethics of removing books from circulation since it is uncertain whether AI companies filter the rare or even out-of-print books from the common titles during digitalization. The other major issue is that scanned books go directly into a private database to train AI, which the general public does not have access to. True, we will have smarter AI, but at the cost of the information not being available to future generations.

Source [web-archived; 2026-07-28_18-53-43Z]

Related: AI Companies Are Buying Tons of Old Books... (...documents about its plan to scan millions of books... to destroy the books in the process...) [web-archived; 2026-07-21_14-58-43_Z]

Dear Developers, Artists, Community,

Thank you heartfelt for the marvel, art...

There's the following possible case regarding image hosting.

The following URL was set to a post once posted:
- https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/410efc36-1797-4d02-b771-ec608c21a64e.png?format=webp

The related post:
- https://lemmy.world/post/49812750 (Nancy Kovack (1963)...)

Once the post was loaded shortly after its publishing, in a local client, the client returned a "no image" placeholder.
When checked the raw response, the endpoint sent the following:

{
  "error":"unknown",
  "message":"Request error: error sending request for url (http://pictrs:8080/image/process.webp?src=410efc36-1797-4d02-b771-ec608c21a64e.png&thumbnail=256): operation timed out"
}

It seems like a container/virtual machine, with the custom hostname of pictrs is not available at certain times on port 8080, as if restarting shortly or too busy right the moment the post is created, possibly proxied within containers/local network where custom DNS resolved of Docker/Podman/etc. or similar systems exist. In result, "times out" on DNS or another transfer protocol context.

With some time passed, a few minutes, with the post reloaded for another request, the image was successfully received!

Please stay safe, and I wish you success, stability, and peace...

Best and kind regards

If you use Thunderbird on Windows, you may be familiar with sending Thunderbird to the system tray (the notification area) so it keeps running in the background. Starting with Thunderbird 154, the way this works has changed – instead of minimizing to the tray, Thunderbird now moves to the tray when you close it. This article explains the change and shows you how to turn the feature on.

Note: This feature applies only to Thunderbird 154 and later on Windows 10 and 11. It is not available on macOS or Linux.

Source

Holy gracious smokes... such an important feature... some used to implement via workarounds as custom hooks in DEs and/or add-ons...

I am literally trained myself to press on "Minimize" just for this program, so to not close it accidentally in an environment I haven't configured (e.g., someone's else machine).
And not to mention cases when tray icons do not update on process's terminated automatically in certain environments sometimes, keeping it with a ghost icon indicating as "running"...

Though, no support for the Linux yet, the OS I've been into for more than two decades now, it at least has a progress...

Thank you... heartfelt...

Honestly the only thing holding up progress is an engineers time to work on it. I started this project some time ago and then would love to find time to come back to it.
Source

I rarely utilize the machine of sorrow, and only if I fail to find the information in normal search engines with effort and time invested. The prompt was:

What is the term for when an update breaks previously working features?  
What is the main origin of the term? Why was it used instead of other alternatives?  
Link to direct sources and find the most correct and valid reason.  

And I sure never ever used nor will use the freaking ineffably sorrowful, disgraceful, and disrespectful towards the Wikipedia and People work, effort, and the dear infinitely marvelous history:
- Grokipedia

Such a sad time to live...

Related:
- AI models collapse when trained on recursively generated data;
- Strong Model Collapse

My name's Alysian. I've been making music for 10 years now, which makes me very passionate about this video I want to make right now. And that is people who are using AI, like our friend... to fake being a producer and posing as if they made it, which is just lying.

The reason this is actually kind of pissing me off is because they are completely undermining the entire purpose of making art. And that is expressing your own unique creative idea through the art you're making and trying to convey a message to someone else.

And they're also intentionally deceiving you by making you think that they're something that they're just not. And using an AI to do that for you just completely defeats the purpose...

CEO can claim that they're helping music in whatever way they see fit. But when the CEO is on record saying something like this...

You're telling me that just because something's hard, I should give up. I shouldn't keep trying. I shouldn't keep finding new ways to make this thing work. What is the point of doing anything then? You think the greatest artists, writers, athletes, musicians got good at what they're doing because it just came easy, and just fell in their lap?

No, dude. They got to where they were because they knew how hard it was going to be. They figured out what they needed to do in order to get good at it. They logged in on their craft and they succeeded.

Source: https://youtu.be/ejKHBJAQWr4 (I exposed fake AI producers... - Ilysian...)

Please... accept my sincere and heartfelt gratitude... for the so incredibly marvelous and crucially important work, Art... you do, and how you do it...
You are an infinitely brilliant miracle...

Oh! And thank you, Sir Roderick Bodkin, for accompanying the desktop cursor of the so miraculously marvelous person, the Artist I've just noticed accidentally, and will always appreciate the moment I listened to his stance, work, and attitude... for the ineffably magnificent human History of Art...

Please do stay safe, and I wish you stability, success, and peace...

Related: https://lemmy.world/post/48289309 (The Millions of Songs Mashed Into AI-Generated Music...)

Sir Roderick Bodkin

Source: https://youtu.be/ejKHBJAQWr4?t=709 [00:11:49]

Dear Coffee Community at LemmyWorld,

Thank you for the marvel you do...

I am sorry, but just to clarify, may I ask... why ever use the so fake, effortless, worthless, void-empty, horrible, and sorrowful meat-ground set of bytes... as the very main banner to represent the so ineffably magnificent art, history, and human effort... as Coffee... and more than 10,714 Members of the Community, too...

There are so many artists out there who have art attributed... and if you haven't chosen a work of your own, have you considered a competition between the current Members to choose the artwork for the banner? A moment of photography would already be a marvel...

Please... please do consider the noise, emptiness, and unintentional but possible disrespect... towards the miracle... divine elixir... the coffee...

Best and kind regards

Translation from the Arabic...

O Coffee! Thou dost dispel all cares, thou art the object of desire to the scholar.
This is the beverage of the friends of God; it gives health to those in its service who strive after wisdom.

Prepared from the simple shell of the berry, it has the odor of musk and the color of ink.
The intelligent man who empties these cups of foaming coffee, he alone knows truth.

May God deprive of this drink the foolish man who condemns it with incurable obstinacy.
Coffee is our gold. Wherever it is served, one enjoys the society of the noblest and most generous men.

O drink! As harmless as pure milk, which differs from it only in its blackness...

Delicious beverage, its color is the seal of its purity.

Source: by Abd-al-Kâdir ibn Mohammad al Ansâri al Jazari al Hanbali [1587 AD; webarchive]

// cc @martijn@lemmy.world ; @dannoffs@lemmy.sdf.org ; @Xariphon@kbin.social

It's sorrowful some people choose to hate, complain, ridicule, and block everything that does not fit their choice...

With just a single idea shared, a lone message posted in a community, with your finite priceless time and experience invested, you may get banned instantly, and permanently, instead of actually learning and discover together...

The single message that resulted in my immediate permanent ban:

# /etc/udev/rules.d/90-hwaccess.rules

KERNEL=="mem",        GROUP="hwaccess", MODE="0660"
SUBSYSTEM=="spidev",  GROUP="hwaccess", MODE="0660"
SUBSYSTEM=="i2c-dev", GROUP="hwaccess", MODE="0660"

setfacl -Rm 'g:hwaccess:rwX' -- \
    /sys/kernel/debug/ec \
    /sys/bus/pci/devices/*/config;

In general, AI companies defend their right to train models on unlicensed music by arguing that the training is “fair use” under copyright law, meaning that AI models do not harm the market for creators’ work. This is a complex claim...

Source [2026-06-14; web-archive]

Related: Millions of Copyrighted Songs Were Fed to AI Music Generators [2026-06-16; web-archive]

The AI companion startup is hiring 10 "masturbation consultants" to test a feature called Daily Guided Masturbation, which uses mood-matched AI voice sessions to guide users through the experience. Participants would document how regular use affects stress, sleep quality, mood, and confidence. The four-week role is open to adults 18 and older in the U.S. and the U.K...

Joi AI is focused on making AI companionship more immersive, personalized, and emotionally responsive," Levin said. "We’re innovating features like Daily Guided Masturbation to make AI a more intuitive part of people’s everyday wellness routines, not just a novelty experience."

Source [2026-05-24; web-archive]

It saddens me to say this, but I don't believe this path will teach us how to preserve our humanity, or to support a human to learn to become a lovable, empathetic, experienced human.

Yes, I do realize that this has been around for a long time, including the scene from film "The 6th Day" of ~2000 with the apartment "virtual girlfriend" I recall even.
And it feels like I get for where this is coming from, and how lone or ill people (e.g. film Shame) may find it relevant, but... I'm deeply saddened because I don't see it helping us nurture our truest, most human selves... and personally, I see it a degradation of a humanity, since I believe in people should focus on love between actual people, search for a true love...

We can do better...

It does not seem like this kind of technology will support a person to have a healthy and long-term happy life...
I'm holding out heartfelt deep hope that us people can discover a better way... to not invest technologies to distant all of us even further with every such invention... but instead to ease the search for partners... or for our true... infinitely magnificent Soulmates instead... since isn't it the purpose... to finally find a miracle... to be a miracle for them, too... and both create a universe...