alt Hacker NewsThe title is (I believe intentionally) inaccurate. Better would be:
Anthropic trained on illegally acquired Stanford professors' books
The article does not say the training was illegal (although does discuss the professors push for a licensing model).
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car • yesterday at 4:14 PM
Thanks, I concur and have changed the author’s original title to better represent the article.
jawilson2 • yesterday at 4:25 PM
I robbed the bank illegally.
But the car I bought with the money was totally legal.
frangonf • yesterday at 4:18 PM
Anthropic allegedly legally learned literature for large llms from illegally laundered illicit LibGen looted Stanford libraries?
Distinction without a difference. They pirated books for the purpose of using them to train their models.
The noteworthy thing here, IMO, is the judge seems to have explicitly stated that using legally-acquired works to train AI models falls under fair use.