Just scan all the snippets and upload them. Someone will figure it out.

The snippets contain sensible data of Stasi victims and often false statements about them. There is a specific law governing the handling of Stasi files, regulating who can get access to what.[1]

[1] Gesetz über die Unterlagen des Staatssicherheitsdienstes der ehemaligen Deutschen Demokratischen Republik (Stasi-Unterlagen-Gesetz - StUG), https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/stug/BJNR022720991.html (in German)

It also contains compromising information about agents and informants. At one point there was a concern people would turn on each other. Now almost everybody involved is either elderly or dead.

Scanning them is likely part of the problem.

I think "scanning" these days might be referring to cameras.

Possibly machinery which automatically grabs, straightens, and scans/photographs each of the 400 to 600 million fragments.

Humans are also black boxes

There are not, because humans are where the light shines out of in this analogy.

>> Humans are also black boxes

I have no idea why I like this comment, but I do.

Have you met a human before? Are they totally arbitrary? If not they are not black boxes. I’m getting a bit tired of this equivocation. We are all 99.999% the same.

You have no idea. They have the entire internet and everything else that’s ever been written anywhere they could get their hands on. I highly doubt they use Google internally for their web searches. Get a Let’s Encrypt certificate for any website that isn’t published anywhere else. The Anthropic and OpenAI bots are among the first to read it.