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989 points acomjean | 2 comments | 05 Sep 25 19:52 UTC | HN request time: 0.42s | source

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1. whatever1 ◴[06 Sep 25 05:35 UTC] No.45146884[source]▶

>>45142885 (OP) #

I don’t understand how training an LLM on a book and then selling its contents via subscriptions is fine but using a probabilistic OCR to read a book and then selling its contents is a crime that deserves jail time.

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2. miohtama ◴[06 Sep 25 06:32 UTC] No.45147123[source]▶

>>45146884 (TP) #

It's not a crime. It is civil lawsuit.

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