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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: 0.205s | 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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timewizard[dead post] ◴[07 Jul 25 15:03 UTC] No.44491129[source]▶
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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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1. 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.