Honestly, collectively, I don't think people are angry enough about AI companies, specifically Anthropics destruction of books; it is already bad enough they're using them for training data, to extend the life of the Ouroboros machine, but they are destroying them because of "copyright," and pro-AI people are blaming the destruction of these books on authors not wanting their books stolen, so copyright adapted; even then, ownership of the book shouldn't give them the authority to destroy them en mass.
Like always a US ruling, a US decision is destroying culture, a single judge is to blame for allowing them to do this, by considering it fair use; it isn't even classics they're destroying most of the time, but early scientific journals, and war diaries, from people who fought in them, and more; they aren't just destroying culture, they're destroying memories of people. They're committing disgusting acts, and it's up to us to stop them because, in silence they've doing this, and genuinely, for what?
They've already begun showing signs of decay, and even the CEO of Anthropic admitted they need hundreds of billions, otherwise they'll go bankrupt, and OpenAI is already teetering on; they have already scraped the entire internet to get to this point, there isn't enough training data in physical media, or in Google Books to get them much further before they begin swallowing themselves. I, for one, cannot wait for that day.
This will be for nothing.
Anyone, who uses Anthropic, or AI in any capacity (bar those who addicted to ChatBots, that is a different issue entirely), is compliant in this, and fuck them; especially fuck those who think they're being creative by generating a book or art, they're not.
The soul of art is perspective, and the muse; in writing, it is telling a story, politically, of your life, through characters and a world you grow to love, and develop ever so carefully, AI slop can never and will never compare because it cannot live, and feel, and anyone who thinks their slop is equal, is kidding themselves, and I fucking pity them.
As a writer, it appalls me, but furthermore, as a person, it appalls me that these people's legacies are being destroyed, and corrupted for a company that wants money, and a monopoly over information.
We must keep physical media alive, because education and information is the soul of rebellion, and they don't want us to have that.