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

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402 points pyman | 4 comments | 07 Jul 25 09:20 UTC | HN request time: 0.618s | source
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russell_h ◴[07 Jul 25 14:58 UTC] No.44491073[source]▶
The title is clearly meant to generate outrage, but what is wrong with cutting up a book that you own?
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1. jobs_throwaway ◴[07 Jul 25 15:06 UTC] No.44491156[source]▶
poverty mindset. We can make more books, and now these copies contribute to a corpus of knowledge that far more people benefit from
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2. timewizard ◴[07 Jul 25 15:11 UTC] No.44491212[source]▶
People who pay Anthropic you mean. There is no benefit. And only the owner can make more books.

Fake altruistic mindset. Super sociopathic.

3. justinrubek ◴[07 Jul 25 15:20 UTC] No.44491302[source]▶
Wasteful mindset. They don't need the books, they need the data. They should never have been printed if they were going to he destroyed.
4. kube-system ◴[07 Jul 25 18:10 UTC] No.44493108[source]▶
They very clearly had a reason.