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

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394 points pyman | 1 comments | 07 Jul 25 09:20 UTC | HN request time: 0.202s | source
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dathinab ◴[07 Jul 25 14:41 UTC] No.44490867[source]▶
as far as I understand while training on books is clearly not fair use (as the result will likely hurt the lively hood of authors, especially not "best of the best" authors).

as long as you buy the book it still should be legal, that is if you actually buy the book and not a "read only" eBook

but the 7_000_000 pirated books are a huge issue, and one from which we have a lot of reason to believe isn't just specific to Anthropic

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1. asadotzler ◴[07 Jul 25 15:33 UTC] No.44491420[source]▶
Buying a copy of a book does not give you license to take the exact content of that book, repackage it as a web service, and sell it to millions of others. That's called theft.