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Anthropic wins fair use victory for AI – but still in trouble for stealing books

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48 points taubek | 2 comments | 25 Jun 25 20:44 UTC | HN request time: 0.409s | source
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pseufaux ◴[26 Jun 25 09:11 UTC] No.44385580[source]▶
> But to make anyone pay specifically for the use of a book each time they read it, each time they recall it from memory, each time they later draw upon it when writing new things in new ways would be unthinkable.

This feels like an unwarranted anthropomorphization of what LLMs are doing.

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1. mystified5016 ◴[26 Jun 25 19:50 UTC] No.44390645[source]▶
DDOSes are illegal attacks due to the speed and scale of the automation.

If a website gets organically DOSed by Slashdot, that is not an illegal attack.

LLMs 'reading' a book is not the same as a human reading a book in the exact same way that following a very popular link is not participating in a DDOS

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2. zajio1am ◴[27 Jun 25 00:08 UTC] No.44392676[source]▶
No, DDoS are illegal (and Slashdot effect is legal) due to intent. That is usually the most important distinction in criminal matters.