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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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[–] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

It's literally the process that allows digitized media to be safe to possess. Someone read the FBI warnings before movies on VHS. This is some corporate malicious compliance and what the law looks like when taken to an absurd extreme.