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points by simonw 2 days ago | 0 comments
Anthropic also claimed that those pirated books had not been used to train their models.

They've since bought vast numbers of second hand books and scanned those for training, which appears be legal.

[–] HDThoreaun 2 days ago
We went through this with Google. Scanning books is legal as long as you then immediately destroy them. Then since training with material you own is fair use they’re good to go.
[–] rpdillon 2 days ago
> which appears be legal.

Interesting phrasing from you, Simon. Is there any legal theory under which it should be illegal?

[–] skew-aberration 2 days ago
LLMs can reproduce the training data verbatim, under some circumstances. They have to be trained not to.
[–] simonw 2 days ago
No idea, I'm not a lawyer.
[–] FireBeyond 2 days ago
Appears to be legal in that current rulings and legislation say that to do so does not run afoul of fair use.