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

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393 points pyman | 1 comments | 07 Jul 25 09:20 UTC | HN request time: 0.204s | source
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ramon156 ◴[07 Jul 25 10:42 UTC] No.44488798[source]▶
Pirate and pay the fine is probably hell of a lot cheaper than individually buying all these books. I'm not saying this is justified, but what would you have done in their situation?

Sayi "they have the money" is not an argument. It's about the amount of effort that is needed to individually buy, scan, process millions of pages. If that's done for you, why re-do it all?

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darkoob12 ◴[07 Jul 25 12:48 UTC] No.44489833[source]▶
This is not about paying for a single copy. It would still be wrong even if they have bought every single one of those books. It is a form of plagiarism. The model will use someone else's idea without proper attribution.
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1. jeroenhd ◴[07 Jul 25 14:49 UTC] No.44490963[source]▶
Legally speaking, we don't know that yet. Early signs are pointing at judges allowing this kind of crap because it's almost impossible for most authors to point out what part of the generated slop was originally theirs.