• OmegaMouse@pawb.social
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    1 day ago

    What, how is this a win? Three authors lost a lawsuit to an AI firm using their works.

    • ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world
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      21 hours ago

      It would harm the A.I. industry if Anthropic loses the next part of the trial on whether they pirated books — from what I’ve read, Anthropic and Meta are suspected of getting a lot off torrent sites and the like.

      It’s possible they all did some piracy in their mad dash to find training material but Amazon and Google have bookstores and Google even has a book text search engine, Google Scholar, and probably everything else already in its data centers. So, not sure why they’d have to resort to piracy.

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      24 hours ago

      The lawsuit would not have benefitted their fellow authors but their publishing houses and the big ai companies.