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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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[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Phrased like it's a technicality, when it's just... your rights. You are explicitly allowed to do this.

This whole article sounds like Jack Valenti shrieking over VCRs. 'They copied a broadcast! For later!!! That's skirting copyright law!'

Copyright law suuucks. It needs vicious reform. And yet! These specific things have always been permitted, as a necessary part of protecting consumers, versus an industry that would love to charge rent for the books on your shelf. Those motherfuckers put DRM in cables. And yet: their laws say this is fine.

[–] koper@feddit.nl 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's not that clear cut. Buying a book doesn't generallly give you the right to make copies and sell those.

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 month ago

Is that what they did?

Is that what anyone's talking about?