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

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393 points pyman | 2 comments | 07 Jul 25 09:20 UTC | HN request time: 0.465s | source
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shrubble ◴[07 Jul 25 16:27 UTC] No.44491973[source]▶
Let’s say my AI company is training an AI on woodworking books and at the end, it will describe in text and wireframe drawings (but not the original or identical photos) how to do a particular task.

If I didn’t license all the books I trained on, am I not depriving the publisher of revenue, given people will pay me for the AI instead of buying the book?

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1. mathiaspoint ◴[07 Jul 25 16:28 UTC] No.44491993[source]▶
The same argument applies to someone who learned from the book and wrote an article explaining the idea to someone else.
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