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They didn't just "read" the books. They scanned every single page of every single book in the library, then took the scans home. Are humans allowed to do that?

• gield 4mo ago
  What do you mean with "then took the scans home"? Anthropic et al didn't buy all the books in the world and kept them for themselves.
  • meindnoch 4mo ago
    Correct, they torrented them. I just wanted to stick to the library analogy of the parent comment.
  • jachee 4mo ago
    Therein lies the rub: they didn't buy them... They pirated digital copies of them. See, e.g.: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/03/libgen-meta-openai/682093/ https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/03/libge...
• NoahZuniga 4mo ago
  Yes! Creating personal copies of copyrighted works are allowed. (Also, libraries really don't mind if you take pictures of the content of works they have.)
  • Lionga 4mo ago
    Well LLMs dont make personal copies they make commercial copies.
    • NoahZuniga 4mo ago
      I didn't say if LLMs are allowed do that, I said that humans are allowed to do that.