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

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989 points acomjean | 1 comments | 05 Sep 25 19:52 UTC | HN request time: 0.204s | source
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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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wmf ◴[05 Sep 25 21:29 UTC] No.45143840[source]▶
Paying $3,000 for pirating a ~$30 book seems disproportionate.
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1. _Algernon_ ◴[05 Sep 25 22:39 UTC] No.45144519[source]▶
As long as they haven't been bullied into the corporate equivalent of suicide by the "justice" system it's not disproportionate considering what happened to Aaron Schwartz.

If anything it's too little based on precedent.