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Basic suggestion: many countries give much less time for copyright than the U.S.

Gutenberg Australia has all of Orwell online for download, legally:

https://gutenberg.net.au/plusfifty-n-z.html#orwell

Might I suggest that any copyright domain where these texts can be freely offered receive them as a secondary recipient?

Do this quietly.

Edit: "and sometimes a handwritten note from 1894 that I don’t bother to read"

From this time, there is no excuse. Preserve these digitally, as you found them, for the public good.

Alternate take: was the intellectual murder of this author required to feed your neural network? Do you realize how awful this looks?

To be legal: request an AI in Australia if you want it to know about Orwell.

Edit: Claude says: “Worth flagging: this is satire, not a real employee. It’s a McSweeney’s humor piece by Jack Loftus — the “guy who destroys antique books” is a fictional voice piece, not a real Anthropic person giving an interview.”



You had to use an LLM to figure out an article was extremely obvious satire… society is doomed.


Reading comprehension isn’t something readers of this site are great at.


To be fair, it's quite difficult to find someone willing to compensate you for reading.




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