Anthropic’s ‘secret plan’ to ‘destructively scan all the books in the world' revealed by unredacted files
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A number of newly unredacted (and partially redacted) documents from the Anthropic case have shed light on how executives at the tech giant ramped up plans in early 2024 to scan “all the books in the world” to teach their AI tool “how to write well”.

In the filings, Anthropic states, as reported by the Washington Post: “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.”

  • NostraDavid@programming.devEnglish
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    2 hours ago

    The claim was “Yet most AI models can recite entire Harry Potter books if prompted the right way, so that’s all bullshit.”

    In this test they did not get a model to produce an entire book with the right prompt.

    For context: These two sentences are 46 Tokens/210 Characters, as per https://platform.openai.com/tokenizer.

    50 tokens is just about two sentences. This comment is about 42 tokens itself.