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397 points pyman | 1 comments | 07 Jul 25 09:20 UTC | HN request time: 0.312s | source

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pyman ◴[07 Jul 25 09:20 UTC] No.44488332[source]▶

Anthropic's cofounder, Ben Mann, downloaded million copies of books from Library Genesis in 2021, fully aware that the material was pirated.

Stealing is stealing. Let's stop with the double standards.

x3n0ph3n3 ◴[07 Jul 25 10:45 UTC] No.44488816[source]▶

1. 1oooqooq ◴[07 Jul 25 10:58 UTC] No.44488893[source]▶

actually, the Only time it's a (ethical) crime is when a corporation does it at scale for profit.

Anthropic cut up millions of used books, and downloaded 7M pirated ones – judge