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

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.

At least most pirates just consume for personal use. Profiting from piracy is a whole other level beyond just pirating a book.

> At least most pirates just consume for personal use.

Easy for the pirate to say. Artists might argue their intent was to trade compensation for one's personal enjoyment of the work.

All the evidence shows that piracy is good for artists' business. You make a good work, people are exposed to it through piracy, and they end up buying more of your stuff than they would otherwise. But keep crying about the artist's plight