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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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[โ€“] 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.

[โ€“] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 month ago

Is that what they did?

Is that what anyone's talking about?