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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: 0.213s | source
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gordian-mind ◴[06 Sep 25 10:42 UTC] No.45148158[source]▶
After the book publishers burned Google Book's Library of Alexandria, they are now making it impossible to train a LLM unless you engage in the medieval process of manually buying paper-copies of work just to scan & destroy them...
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1. Kerrick ◴[06 Sep 25 14:40 UTC] No.45149671[source]▶
They are nondestructive methods of scanning. I bought an edge scanner to scan collectible public domain books for Project Gutenberg.