The programmer adjusted the way it works to make it slightly less OP. Just so we could all be sure the bug was now a feature.

Ah I haven't played in a long time, though it's good to see there's still some active updates

I wish I could be sure this was a joke.

He named himself "autophagian" - it just confirms his story.

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Edit: who is that https://ca.linkedin.com/in/analeticiaibarra who signed the disgraced "cindyllm" account? The saboteur even signed itself?!

The purpose of a prompt like that is to have it rephrase it in its own words, so you can spot any misunderstandings and correct them.

If you're of the belief that this is a contradiction in terms, then what can I say? It works.

But it doesn't "understand" these words any better. When transforming into code it may reinterpret yet again.

If by "understand" you mean to put the hidden state of the transformer into the desired topological basins. Yes, it does "understand" them better.

If it can rephrase once it's less likely to screw up the second rephrasing into code. Whether or not we want to use the term "understand".

Usually it means the opposite. Books that are old and valuable tend to be out of copyright, so they do see new printing runs.

The British Library has a large quantity of books that have literary, academic, cultural or bibliopolical significance but are too niche to ever see print new print runs.

This idea that there can only be merit in a work if it's commercially viable is incredibly ignorant, and if that becomes the standard for whether a work is preserved or not, we stand to lose a great deal of our cultural heritage.

They are. They can’t release it; that would be copyright infringement. But they’re absolutely planning to make further use of the book later.

Obviously. Copyright infringement is settled law.

Copyright infringement has a long and deep bank of caselaw but as Anthropic has already discovered, it is not entirely "settled."

B is illegal, and Anthropic ate a billion dollar fine for trying it, so you can’t even claim they don’t want to.

Then give up training on antiquated books. Why does an LLM aimed at providing utility for people living in 2026 need to be trained on rare (thus probably obscure) texts of yore in the first place?

Because these companies have no real strategy beyond trying to capture any and all information they possibly can to try and lock it away and charge the public for it in perpetuity.

Because that’s illegal.

Exactly. They set up this operation specifically to comply with the letter of copyright law and defend against publisher law suits. “Leaking” to Anna’s Archive is the last thing they’re going to do.

I use urllib.request. It works fine, it’s always available, and I don’t need to push it through an audit.