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

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989 points acomjean | 2 comments | 05 Sep 25 19:52 UTC | HN request time: 0s | 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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1. GabeIsko ◴[05 Sep 25 23:31 UTC] No.45144951[source]▶
Yes, but the cat is out of the bag now. Welcome to the era of every piece of creative work coming with an EULA that you cannot train on it. It will be like clearing samples.
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2. Joel_Mckay ◴[06 Sep 25 03:36 UTC] No.45146394[source]▶
Many already did this years ago for game resources on iClone, Unity, and UE.

There are also a lot of usage rules that now make many games unfeasible.

We dug into the private markets seeking less Faustian terms, but found just as many legal submarines in wait... "AI" Plagiarism driven projects are just late to the party. =3