Then I too can just download books, videos, music, whatever the fuck we want
Alsup also said, however, that Anthropic’s copying and storage of more than 7 million pirated books in a “central library” infringed the authors’ copyrights and was not fair use. The judge has ordered a trial in December to determine how much Anthropic owes for the infringement.
US copyright law says that willful copyright infringement can justify statutory damages of up to $150,000 per work.
this is pretty much what we expected from the decision last week: training on books is legal; pirating books is still piracy… you can train on books you own without asking permission (and i assume books/ebooks that you don’t have to circumvent DRM as that’s illegal in a different way)
This is physically bought, scanned, books. Not covered by this case is what they’re allowed to do with that model, eg. charge people for access to it.
Maybe controversial, but compared to meta pirating books, claiming it makes no difference, and that each book is individually worthless to the model (but the model is of course worth billions), is it wrong that I’m like “hmm at they’re least buying books”?
As others say, there should be specific licensing, so they actually need to pay a cost per book, set by the publisher, specifically to legally include it in their model, not just shopping as humans but actually an llm skin suit slave.
