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    Anthropic agrees to pay $1.5B to settle lawsuit with book authors

    (www.nytimes.com)
    989 points acomjean | 12 comments | 05 Sep 25 19:52 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source | bottom
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    aeon_ai ◴[05 Sep 25 20:46 UTC] No.45143392[source]▶
    To be very clear on this point - this is not related to model training.

    It’s important in the fair use assessment to understand that the training itself is fair use, but the pirating of the books is the issue at hand here, and is what Anthropic “whoopsied” into in acquiring the training data.

    Buying used copies of books, scanning them, and training on it is fine.

    Rainbows End was prescient in many ways.

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    ants_everywhere ◴[05 Sep 25 21:18 UTC] No.45143731[source]▶
    I wonder what Aaron Swartz would think if he lived to see the era of libgen.
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    klntsky ◴[05 Sep 25 21:21 UTC] No.45143762[source]▶
    He died (2013) after libgen was created (2008).
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    1. arcanemachiner ◴[05 Sep 25 21:23 UTC] No.45143787[source]▶
    Yeah but did he die before anybody actually knew about it?
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    2. jay_kyburz ◴[05 Sep 25 21:37 UTC] No.45143923[source]▶
    Is lib still around anymore. I can't find any functioning urls
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    3. kibae ◴[05 Sep 25 21:39 UTC] No.45143953[source]▶
    There are mirrors on its' wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_Genesis
    4. awesome_dude ◴[05 Sep 25 21:45 UTC] No.45144011[source]▶
    I believe that there's a reddit sub that keeps people up to date with what URLs are, or are not, functioning at any given point in time
    5. pxx ◴[05 Sep 25 21:46 UTC] No.45144026[source]▶
    libgen.help is frequently updated
    6. griffzhowl ◴[05 Sep 25 22:18 UTC] No.45144306[source]▶
    Recent MEGATHREAD on status of libgen and alternatives

    https://www.reddit.com/r/libgen/comments/1n4vjud/megathread_...

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    7. oxguy3 ◴[05 Sep 25 22:22 UTC] No.45144346[source]▶
    Anna's Archive includes all of libgen and a lot more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna%27s_Archive
    8. karahime ◴[05 Sep 25 22:55 UTC] No.45144653{3}[source]▶
    It's in the megathread linked in this comment, but I want to specifically point to https://open-slum.org/ which is basically a status page for different sites dedicated to this purpose, and which I've found helpful.
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    9. jychang ◴[05 Sep 25 23:33 UTC] No.45144961{4}[source]▶
    Lol. I opened that link and was like "hmmm, that UI looks familiar".

    I'm pretty sure that's just a frontend for Uptime Kuma https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma

    10. edgineer ◴[06 Sep 25 00:04 UTC] No.45145157[source]▶
    I knew about library genesis by 2012. It was at least 10 TiB large by then, IIRC. With the amount of Russian language content I got the impression it was more popular in that sphere, but an impressive collection for anyone and not especially secret.
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    11. h2zizzle ◴[06 Sep 25 02:44 UTC] No.45146186[source]▶
    To be fair, he might have been rather preoccupied at that time.
    12. fph ◴[06 Sep 25 08:50 UTC] No.45147673[source]▶
    Life pro tip: the Wikipedia pages for Libgen and Scihub contain up-to-date current links in the right sidebar. Only for the purpose of information and documentation, of course.