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Arthur Besse ( cypherpunks@lemmy.ml )  to Not the Onion@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 year ago

To skirt copyright law, Anthropic bought and destroyed millions of physical books to train its "Claude" LLM

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To skirt copyright law, Anthropic bought and destroyed millions of physical books to train its "Claude" LLM

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Arthur Besse ( cypherpunks@lemmy.ml )  to Not the Onion@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 year ago
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Anthropic destroyed millions of print books to build its AI models
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Company hired Google's book-scanning chief to cut up and digitize "all the books in the world."
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  • Gork ( Gork@sopuli.xyz ) 
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    What a waste.

    • koper ( koper@feddit.nl ) 
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      Very on brand for AI companies. In a decade they’ll be allowed to give AI agents legal personhood and the right to vote, but only if they first euthanize an equal number of orphans.

    • P03 Locke ( p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 
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      I blame copyright law for requiring this.

  • Jack ( JustJack23@slrpnk.net ) 
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    I FEEL BAD WHEN BUYING PHYSICAL BOOKS BECAUSE IT FEELS WASTEFUL (usually use e-reader) AND THESE FUCKERS DO THIS…

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