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    To comply with copyright law, not to skirt it. That’s what companies that scan large numbers of books do. See for example Authors Guild v. Google from back when Google was scanning books to add to their book search engine. Framing this like it’s some kind of nefarious act is misleading.

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      Yeah, this is on the way of being a win. In this case they actually bought the books, which has been one of the biggest issues with LLMs. There’s certainly more discussion to be had around how they use the materials in the end, but this is a step in the right direction.

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        To a certain extent I agree, but you can buy a book and still commit copyright infringement by copying its contents (for use other than personal use)

        If this would go to court, it would depend on whether training an LLM model is more akin to copying or learning. I can see arguments for either interpretation, but I suspect that the law would lean more toward it being copying rather than learning

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      Because they want earth. The poors are the ones going to space to work the mines, I’m sure of it. Not sure why anyone thinks they’re the ones going to space to live.

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      Ex-wife and I had a room in the trailer house dedicated to books, one might have even called it a library. Seriously, cheap bookshelves, all 4 walls, stuffed. Now I have a stack on a small shelf.

      Just can’t use books anymore. I can choose any of 1,000 epubs on my crappy Android tablet, read in the dark.

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    I don’t really see a problem. It wasn’t like rare books nobody had access to. I mean, AI in general yeah. But not the book part.

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    And meta just pirated them directly from libgen, big fucking deal, copywright law needs to die.

    im guessing based on how much of my own library anthropic tries to scan they probably also got a lot more content from the open web anyway and just destroyed the books to make a show of it and hope no one sues them after.

    You dont need to unbind or destroy books to scan them and destroying them doesnt magically make reproducing bits or copies suddenly not plagerism.