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Google's new AI mode is good, actually

(simonwillison.net)
129 points xnx | 1 comments | 07 Sep 25 14:43 UTC | HN request time: 0.198s | source
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YuriNiyazov ◴[07 Sep 25 16:08 UTC] No.45159426[source]▶
The example itself that Simon puts up is questionable. I might be wrong about this, but I thought I read elsewhere that the “buy, scan, destroy” method was explicitly not the problem, and instead the issue was that anthropic downloaded libgen, and the settlement was for libgen.

Edit: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45143392

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1. simonw ◴[07 Sep 25 23:08 UTC] No.45163039[source]▶
Yeah, I agree: "This method was a major component of a copyright lawsuit settlement that Anthropic paid in September 2025" is a bit misleading, I actually wrote a whole separate thing about that here: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/6/anthropic-settlement/