Anthropic wins fair use victory for AI – but still in trouble for stealing books

by taubek on 6/25/2025, 8:44:56 PM with 15 comments

  • by pseufaux on 6/26/2025, 9:11:44 AM

    > But to make anyone pay specifically for the use of a book each time they read it, each time they recall it from memory, each time they later draw upon it when writing new things in new ways would be unthinkable.

    This feels like an unwarranted anthropomorphization of what LLMs are doing.

  • by gnabgib on 6/25/2025, 11:00:49 PM

    Discussion (168 points, 1 day ago, 201 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44367850

  • by roywiggins on 6/25/2025, 11:10:21 PM

    > Then, its service providers stripped the books from their bindings, cut their pages to size, and scanned the books into digital form — discarding the paper originals.

    This is basically the plot to Vinge's Rainbows End, AI and all.

  • by gschizas on 6/26/2025, 1:39:14 PM

    I wonder how this is going to affect the Disney+Universal vs OpenAI trial.

  • by Am4TIfIsER0ppos on 6/26/2025, 12:46:24 PM

    Stealing? Which book store did they burgle? Was it a publisher's warehouse?