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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: 4.637s | source
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petralithic ◴[05 Sep 25 20:54 UTC] No.45143482[source]▶
This is sad for open source AI, piracy for the purpose of model training should also be fair use because otherwise only the big companies who can afford to pay off publishers like Anthropic will be able to do so. There is no way to buy billions of books just for model training, it simply can't happen.
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1. josh-sematic ◴[06 Sep 25 12:11 UTC] No.45148584[source]▶
Setting aside whether or not I think it should be fair use, you’re only going to be training a new foundation model these days if you have billions of dollars to spend on the endeavor anyway. Nobody is training Llama 5 in their garage.
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2. petralithic ◴[07 Sep 25 03:22 UTC] No.45155128[source]▶
Millions, not billions, as DeepSeek and others have shown.