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

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419 points pyman | 1 comments | 07 Jul 25 09:20 UTC | HN request time: 0.2s | 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.

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x3n0ph3n3 ◴[07 Jul 25 10:45 UTC] No.44488816[source]▶
Copyright infringement is not stealing.
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pyman ◴[07 Jul 25 11:10 UTC] No.44488987[source]▶
Pirating a book and selling it on claude.ai is stealing, both legally and morally.
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zb3 ◴[07 Jul 25 11:20 UTC] No.44489073[source]▶
Who got robbed? Just because I'd pay for AI it doesn't mean I'd buy these books.
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pyman ◴[07 Jul 25 11:44 UTC] No.44489291[source]▶
You should ask the teachers who spent years writing those books.
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zb3 ◴[07 Jul 25 16:41 UTC] No.44492124[source]▶
I did not ask them to write those books, and I wouldn't buy those.
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1. pyman ◴[08 Jul 25 02:05 UTC] No.44496331[source]▶
Doesn't make sense what you said. If you're using AI, you might be benefiting from my books, whether you realise it or not.