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The way I understand the case, yes. If Anthropic had just 1 copy of each book that would be permitted. Apparently they at some point bought copies of most books then shredded them. I'm not entirely sure how that makes any difference, but it was done after the piracy.

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At some point this starts to feel like witchcraft spells.

Machine learning is 20% programming, 30% math and 50% demon summoning.

That may be so, but this is really more about the law.

So, y'know, probably more like 80% demon summoning.

> Apparently they at some point bought copies of most books then shredded them.

An awfully convenient explanation of what went down. Gives some good "dog ate my homework" vibes.

The double standard vs google etc. is of course despicable

they would target google too

but google money is so big that they could just buys the entire thing + publisher

Google selling books as a publisher on playstore so it can get away with it

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