You are right. You have not implied what I wrote and maybe strictly speaking the articles haven't either if one reads them carefully. But reading the first lines made it very likely to me that after reading the article many readers will think that "Anthropic is trying to 'burn' as many unique books as possible so that we cannot read them".
If the article wrote "Anthropic is acquiring books nobody wants and due to unreasonable law they have to destroy them", it would have painted a different picture and be a boring read.
They are certainly not targeting rare books on purpose. That would not make sense for their training data. I guess rare books just happen to be among others and since those are the books nobody wants (otherwise there would be more), Anthropic happens to randomly get more of them. And ofc they don't start a research for the multiplicity over every book they receive in bulk.
I personally would first want to know which rare books are going lost before being angry. Since I care most about scientific knowledge, I'm fairly sure it's not hidden in rare books from the antiquarian bookshop. Yet, there are certainly people who love those books. I just suspect these articles make many more people angry who don't even know which books are lost and if they should care.
Gerenuk
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