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To skirt copyright law, Anthropic bought and destroyed millions of physical books to train its "Claude" LLM (arstechnica.com)
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[–] Gork@sopuli.xyz 29 points 1 month ago (2 children)

What a waste.

[–] koper@feddit.nl 22 points 1 month ago

Very on brand for AI companies. In a decade they'll be allowed to give AI agents legal personhood and the right to vote, but only if they first euthanize an equal number of orphans.

[–] p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 month ago

I blame copyright law for requiring this.