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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: 0.577s | source
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guywithahat ◴[07 Jul 25 16:23 UTC] No.44491931[source]▶
If you own a book, it should be legal for your computer to take a picture of it. I honestly feel bad for some of these AI companies because the rules around copyright are changing just to target them. I don't owe copyright to every book I read because I may subconsciously incorporate their ideas into my future work.
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1. raincole ◴[07 Jul 25 16:27 UTC] No.44491968[source]▶
Are we reading the same article? The article explicitly states that it's okay to cut up and scan the books you own to train a model from them.

> I honestly feel bad for some of these AI companies because the rules around copyright are changing just to target them

The ruling would be a huge win for AI companies if held. It's really weird that you reached the opposite conclusion.