Comment on Anthropic destroyed millions of print books to build its AI models

• blindsight@beehaw.org ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Nope. Ebooks are a license, so the First Sale Doctrine does not apply. Buying ebooks is nearly useless, legally.

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• Vodulas@beehaw.org ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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

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