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

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989 points acomjean | 3 comments | 05 Sep 25 19:52 UTC | HN request time: 0.694s | source
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arduanika ◴[06 Sep 25 13:27 UTC] No.45149093[source]▶
Let us not forget that this one is the good, ethical AI company. The one founded by splinter AI safety cultists who thought that OpenAI wasn't deep enough in the safety cult for their liking. And here they are, keeping the humans safe. By robbing them.

Because it turns out that nobody in the whole safety cult cares a whit for the human mind, the human experience, human art. Maybe for something they call "human values" in some abstract thought experiment, but never for any human decency. No, the human mind is just ones and zeros, just like a computer, no soul and no spark, to people in the cult. The cult thinks that an LLM reading a book is just the same mechanically as a human reading it.

Your brain is just emergence, your honor. Fair use. Blah blah Dennett Hofstadter Yudkowsky.

Do you feel safe?

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1. pennomi ◴[06 Sep 25 13:32 UTC] No.45149130[source]▶
I don’t think that copyright is related to safety at all. Copyright is something that doesn’t really exist, except as a social agreement, while safety is something that exists whether or not society believes it does.
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2. arduanika ◴[06 Sep 25 13:47 UTC] No.45149241[source]▶
We are gods, we are very smart, we make our own rules, says the cult. We define what safety is, not you. Safety is protecting you from imagined monsters for your own good, not protecting you from getting robbed by us. And anyways, property rights are just made up, man, a social construct.

But investors, please give us billions of dollars worth of that imaginary social agreement. We need it so that we can build the inevitable future. We're gonna do it more ethically than those guys over there.

What a swindle.

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3. arduanika ◴[06 Sep 25 17:05 UTC] No.45150971[source]▶
"Laws against infiltrating the IRS don't really exist, except as a social agreement, while Lord Xenu is someone who exists whether or not society believes he does."

That's what you sound like, to people not in the safety cult.