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actual title:

"Anthropic cut up millions of used books to train Claude — and downloaded over 7 million pirated ones too, a judge said."

A not-so-subtle difference.

That said, in a sane world, they shouldn't have needed to cut up all those used books yet again when there's obviously already an existing file that does all the work.

>>Kim_Br+(OP)
The importance of acquiring the physical book was the transfer of compensation to the author.

>>Kim_Br+(OP)
Yeah, I'm not sure if people realize that the whole reason they had to cut up the books was because they wanted to comply with copyright law. Artificial scarcity.

>>kube-s+i01
You're not wrong, but that's one heck of a way to do it. It involves the destruction of 7 million books, which ... I really don't quite see the "promotion of Progress of Science and useful Arts" in that.