Exposed: How Big Tech Betrays Creatives and Secretly Trades Our Data with Hostile Powers
“To those building large language models, books are nothing more than fodder to be devoured en masse before being spit out like fishbone. Often, they’re happy to use digital books — or even better, pirated digital books — as Meta has been accused of doing, and as Anthropic was forced to pay a $1.5 billion settlement to authors for also doing.” – Futurism.com
It continues: Moreover, based The Copyright Act of 1909 (that was more than 100 years ago!!!), “[t]his process took advantage of a legal concept known as first-sale doctrine, which allows a buyer to do what they want with a purchase without the original copyright holder’s say-so. And since Anthropic was turning the original physical texts into digital ones — rather than redistributing them as new copies — a judge found this to be ‘transformative,’ and therefore protected by fair use.
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