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

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390 points pyman | 1 comments | 07 Jul 25 09:20 UTC | HN request time: 0.456s | source
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platunit10 ◴[07 Jul 25 17:33 UTC] No.44492696[source]▶
Every time an article like this surfaces, it always seems like the majority of tech folks believe that training AI on copyrighted material is NOT fair use, but the legal industry disagrees.

Which of the following are true?

(a) the legal industry is susceptible to influence and corruption

(b) engineers don't understand how to legally interpret legal text

(c) AI tech is new, and judges aren't technically qualified to decide these scenarios

Most likely option is C, as we've seen this pattern many times before.

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1. 827a ◴[07 Jul 25 17:37 UTC] No.44492755[source]▶
Armchair commentators, including myself, tend to be imprecise when speaking about whether something is illegal, versus something should be illegal. Sometimes due to a misunderstanding of the law, or an over-estimation of the court's authority, or an over-estimation of our legislature's productivity, or just because we're making conversation and like talking.