Comment on Anthropic destroyed millions of print books to build its AI models
Vodulas@beehaw.org 3 weeks agoPaper is a natural resource, and this literally just wasted a fuck ton. There are non-destructive scanning methods.
Comment on Anthropic destroyed millions of print books to build its AI models
Vodulas@beehaw.org 3 weeks agoPaper is a natural resource, and this literally just wasted a fuck ton. There are non-destructive scanning methods.
B0rax@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
They could have just bought the ebooks…
blindsight@beehaw.org 3 weeks ago
Nope. Ebooks are a license, so the First Sale Doctrine does not apply. Buying ebooks is nearly useless, legally.
Vodulas@beehaw.org 3 weeks ago
I would hazard a guess that the eBook did not exist for the physical books they bought. Still, that doesn’t excuse their actions, nor the bigger issues with training LLMs