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.
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.
It’s the sign of a health economy when we respect the creation of content.
It's a sign of rent seeking economy in decline. Rising economies never respect IPs.
IP protections are in the US Constitution. Has the US been in decline since the late 1700s?
Look into how the US industrial economy started. It was "stealing IP" from the english and not respecting copyright. Would be interested if there are any cases in history of rising economies respecting IP and succeeding because in every case I know about they flagrantly disregard it while developing