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> Anthropic thought it was just a technical problem

Did they? Then why did they "don't want anyone to know about this"? Or do you think their lawyers are dumb?

I imagine they know the public would react like the public is reacting. Like obviously this is not worse than what libraries and thrift shops do daily, but it is bad optics.

I don't think so. Libraries and thrift shops usually don't consider it a good idea to damage those precious, hard-to-reprint books. None would say anything if Anthropic only destroyed 1 million Harry Potter or Foundations

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