Does the secrecy change your verdict?

Question

The company's unsealed planning document states the goal: destructively scan “all the books in the world.” An internal message adds: “We don't want it to be known that we are working on this.”

Accepted Answer

Those are real quotes from Anthropic's Project Panama files, unsealed in the authors' class action: tens of millions of dollars, run by an executive hired from Google Books, kept deliberately quiet. The steelman for silence: every acquisition program on earth avoids announcing itself mid-purchase. The steelman against: you don't hide what you're proud of. (63% of Americans answer "Makes it worse" — floor est.)