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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: 1.517s | source
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whatever1 ◴[06 Sep 25 05:35 UTC] No.45146884[source]▶
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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1. miohtama ◴[06 Sep 25 06:32 UTC] No.45147123[source]▶
It's not a crime. It is civil lawsuit.