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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: 0.001s | 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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bcrosby95 ◴[05 Sep 25 21:33 UTC] No.45143876[source]▶
Fair use isn't about how you access the material, its about what you can do with it after you legally access it. If you don't legally access it, the question of fair use is moot.
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petralithic ◴[05 Sep 25 23:02 UTC] No.45144718[source]▶
Hence, "should"
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btmiller ◴[06 Sep 25 00:53 UTC] No.45145521[source]▶
It’s the sign of a health economy when we respect the creation of content.
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scotty79 ◴[06 Sep 25 02:18 UTC] No.45146015[source]▶
It's a sign of rent seeking economy in decline. Rising economies never respect IPs.
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thfuran ◴[06 Sep 25 16:09 UTC] No.45150499[source]▶
IP protections are in the US Constitution. Has the US been in decline since the late 1700s?
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1. scotty79 ◴[06 Sep 25 16:55 UTC] No.45150905{4}[source]▶
Yes. Great recession was its death throes. It would have fallen by now if it wasn't the only economy not damaged by Second World War and as a result economy that put its currency as currency of global trade. Since then it's mostly sustained by selling freshly printed paper and bullying everyone around with IP laws.