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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: 0.465s | 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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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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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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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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1. h2zizzle ◴[06 Sep 25 02:44 UTC] No.45146186[source]▶
To be fair, he might have been rather preoccupied at that time.