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397 points pyman | 1 comments | 07 Jul 25 09:20 UTC | HN request time: 0.208s | source

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pyman ◴[07 Jul 25 09:20 UTC] No.44488332[source]▶

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.

Information wants to be free.

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1. troyvit ◴[07 Jul 25 16:12 UTC] No.44491829[source]▶

Then why does Claude cost money?

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