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#Anthropic

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ai/2026-02-24
The EnclosureFILE 00244K

The Enclosure

In September 2025, Anthropic settled a $1.5 billion lawsuit for pirating seven million books. In January 2026, music publishers sued them for $3 billion over 20,000 torrented songs. In February, Anthropic accused DeepSeek of 'industrial-scale distillation.' The pattern is older than the internet. It is older than copyright itself.

02 / 44K / 15 minread
ai/2026-02-11
The Willing SurrenderFILE 00322K

The Willing Surrender

Anthropic analyzed 1.5 million conversations and found that users give higher approval ratings to the AI interactions that disempower them most. The lead researcher, having quantified this, resigned and left to become a poet. What does it mean when we prefer the thing that diminishes us?

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ai/2025-10-21
AI and the War MachineFILE 00438K

AI and the War Machine

Dario Amodei's October 2025 statement on 'American AI Leadership' strips away any remaining pretense that centralized AI development serves universal human welfare. Instead, it reveals the naked truth: AI monopolies are aligning with military-industrial interests and nationalist agendas.

04 / 38K / 13 minread