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Kim_Bruning ◴[] No.44489274[source]
actual title:

"Anthropic cut up millions of used books to train Claude — and downloaded over 7 million pirated ones too, a judge said."

A not-so-subtle difference.

That said, in a sane world, they shouldn't have needed to cut up all those used books yet again when there's obviously already an existing file that does all the work.

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1. kube-system ◴[] No.44493136[source]
The importance of acquiring the physical book was the transfer of compensation to the author.
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2. Kim_Bruning ◴[] No.44494412[source]
You're not wrong, but that's one heck of a way to do it. It involves the destruction of 7 million books, which ... I really don't quite see the "promotion of Progress of Science and useful Arts" in that.