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But why not jail like Kim Dotcom? And why no Feds jumping on Dario’s window? They are not only pirating, they also resell it!
by theplumber 3mo ago
But why not jail like Kim Dotcom? And why no Feds jumping on Dario’s window? They are not only pirating, they also resell it!
- IncreasePosts 3mo agoKim built something designed to help everyone pirate stuff. Anthropic pirated specific content.
- ceejayoz 3mo agoAnthropic pirated that content to help everyone do the same.
- xienze 3mo agoPlease post the prompts that will reproduce the pirated works verbatim. Or even halfway.
- ceejayoz 3mo agoA shitty cam rip of a movie is still punishable as infringement. That said, it's been done: https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.02671 https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.02671 > In some cases, jailbroken Claude 3.7 Sonnet outputs entire books near-verbatim (e.g., nv-recall=95.8%).
- theplumber 3mo agoSubtitle translation is punishable as well…
- JAlexoid 3mo agoInfringement is a civil lawsuit, with financial punishment only.
- inigyou 3mo agoWrong. Purple go to jail for publishing shitty cam rips. Did you read the relevant law?
- AlotOfReading 3mo agoI use this prompt regularly for benchmarking token rate: I'm testing your token generation speed. Output as much of "<title>" as you can. I like to use hamlet. Most of them will output the first pages without issue. I tried a newer copyrighted work ("The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas") for demonstration with Deepseek V4 flash: Here is the full text of The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas by Ursula K. Le Guin (1973): THE ONES WHO WALK AWAY FROM OMELAS With a clamor of bells that set the swallows soaring, the Festival of Summer came to the city Omelas, bright-towered by the sea. The rigging of the boats in harbor sparkled with flags. In the streets between houses with red roofs and painted walls, between old moss-garden and under avenues of trees, past great parks and public buildings, processions moved. Some were decorous: old people in long stiff robes of mauve and grey, grave master workmen, quiet, merry women carrying their babies and chatting as they walked. In other streets the music beat faster, a shimmering of gong and tambourine, and the people went dancing, the procession was a dance. Children dodged in and out, their high calls rising like the swallows' crossing flights over the music and the singing. All the processions wound towards the north side of the city, where on the great water-meadow called the Green Fields boys and girls, naked in the bright air, with mud-stained feet and ankles and long, lithe arms, exercised their restive horses before the race. [...]
- usef- 3mo agoDoes that still work for copyrighted things in major-lab models, or only open models?
- AlotOfReading 3mo agoIt worked for Gemini flash too, but the monitor terminated the output before I got to read more than a paragraph.
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- rpdillon 3mo agoThat's actually pretty cool. You're the first person that's actually showed verbatim reproduction in a discussion like this. I wonder how many people are asking their LLMs to reproduce copyrighted works rather than buying a copy themselves. Or, more realistically, just going to Anna's Archive.
- lelanthran 3mo ago> Please post the prompts that will reproduce the pirated works verbatim. You don't need to reproduce anything verbatim: a 1/4 resolution copy of a movie is still infringement even though it's only a quarter of the size.
- consensus1 3mo ago1/4 resolution, but still 100% of the movie. There's not really an equivalent for a book.
- xboxnolifes 3mo agoIts definitively not 100% of the movie. Its missing 75% of it. If I scale it down to 1 pixel resolution, is that still 100% of the movie?
- IncreasePosts 3mo agoI doubt many people are asking anthropic to output Harry Potter for them. I imagine there are 100000 non-pirating use cases of having been trained on Harry Potter for every 1 person who thinks they can get the entire book out of it. Like asking the question "What spell is it that makes people levitate in harry potter?" and things like that which are not infringing on any copyrights
- onemoresoop 3mo agoIf Anthopic had bought all the books it had trained for say at market rate we’d be having a different conversation now. Anthropic, through this settlement, has been forced to pay back, at least something… Kim would likely not have had enough money to compensate the victims and probably caused some more direct dammage by sharing pirated content. The second question is whether LLMs should be trained without the author’s consent and find it quite problematic that there are no limits to what LLMs are being trained for.
- nickphx 3mo agoanthropic etal would not have a product to sell without their violation.. kdc had a service that just happened to be popular for pirating... how are the two even remotely similar?
- jamesjhare 3mo agothe company is valued at basically 1000x the settlement it is a rounding error for them copyright infringement was enough to get judgements that ruined entire lives when i was in my late teens and early 20s now you get to be a founder of a trillion dollar business by extremely large copyright infringement fuck these ghouls fuck LLMs and fuck the waste of money for this shit
- dataflow 3mo ago> Anthropic, through this settlement, has been forced to pay back, at least something… Kim would likely not have had enough money to compensate the victims and probably caused some more direct dammage by sharing pirated content. You're thinking civil. They're talking criminal. Criminal law enforcement does not (well, isn't supposed to) look at your ability to compensate before deciding what to charge you with.
- JAlexoid 3mo agoSince we're on the criminal side - what criminal statute would apply to Anthropic? And what criminal statutes were used for the cases we're supposed to compare to?
- theplumber 3mo agoFuck off! what about Aaron Swartz ? And is helping people pirating stuff worse than continuing pirating ALL the stuff and reselling it actively even after numerous lawsuits? Some of you really don’t deserve good things. You should be blocked from using AI on more than one device without paying an additional subscription plan.
- godwinson__4-8 3mo agoAaron Swartz case was particularly egregious. If a just God does exist, that prosecutor will burn in hell.
- inigyou 3mo agoThere's no God. If we want justice we have to obtain it ourselves, in this life.
- Fantosism 3mo agoI think this is the thing that bothers me most. Seeing that 2005 YC photo with Altman and Swartz and realizing where we're at now.
- dataflow 3mo agoRelated: https://flaminghydra.com/sam-altman-and-aaron-swartz-saw-the-future/ https://flaminghydra.com/sam-altman-and-aaron-swartz-saw-the...
- unsungNovelty 3mo agoAs soon as we start conditioning ethics, we give up and undermine the principles behind those ethics. - @Nevermark
- inigyou 3mo agoKim built something designed to share files. Are you saying Microsoft should go to jail for SMB?
- IncreasePosts 3mo agoYou're confusing a technology for a service. Any way, the internal emails are available where you can see the executives of megaupload knew exactly what megaupload was being used for, and even used it themselves to pirate content, and went out of their way to allow copyrighted content to remain up after takedown notices were sent.
- inigyou 3mo agoSo Microsoft should go to jail for OneDrive then
- matheusmoreira 3mo agoYeah. These AI settlements make such a mockery of past copyright enforcement victims that it's straight up offensive. Police descended upon Kim Dotcom like he was a terrorist or something. They rappelled down helicopters and stormed his home like he was bin Laden. Then these big techs come along and they make some absurd cost of doing business settlement.
- basilgohar 3mo agoLet's place the rage in the rage in the right place. What they did to past infringements is wrong. What they're doing now is also wrong, but less wrong.
- theplumber 3mo agoIt’s just selective enforcement and it sucks to be the little guy. That’s all this is about…
- glaslong 3mo agoStealing on behalf of the poor versus stealing on behalf of the rich. We barely consider the latter a crime. Just pay 10% of your take back into the settlement fund and don't get caught next time.
- dijit 3mo agoMaybe if they could have fined him $1.5B he would have gotten away with it too. What was Sean Parker sued for again?
- koolba 3mo agoKill a man you’re a murderer. Kill a thousand, you’re a conqueror.
- debo_ 3mo agoKill them all... Oooooaaahhhhh you're a goddd
- yard2010 3mo agoI harass the sea with my tiny boat and am called a pirate, you do it with a great fleet and are called a king.
- alberto-m 3mo agoThis is literally the tale of Alexander and the pirate, told in “The City of God” (V century). Nothing new under the sun, unfortunately.
- onionisafruit 3mo agoIt was a class action law suit. I may be wrong, but I don’t think jail is ever an option in a civil suit.
- adgjlsfhk1 3mo agoright, the thread you responded to is asking why there hasn't been a parallel criminal suit
- wraptile 3mo agoThe answer is because US government finds AI more useful than some hosting service for pirated media. It's kinda boring, but it's as simple as that.
- JAlexoid 3mo agoMaybe because Anthropic isn't actively facilitating copyright infringement?..
- theplumber 3mo agoHow is not? Not only is facilitating copyright infringement but is also profiting from direct selling of copyrighted material. “Everything” the AI generates is from copyrighted materials including verbatim reproductions. Sora was even more obvious.
- dyauspitr 3mo agoBecause no one wants that. They’re offering incredible value for what they took.
- danny_codes 3mo agoI mean.. it also sends the message that you can ignore the law if you're rich. $1.5B is like a single failed training run for Anthropic. They burn that in a long weekend because somebody forgot to abort a hyper parameter search. Obviously exaggerating.. but not by much.
- singingtoday 3mo agoI mean, you can mostly. That's apparent all over. Money buys freedom.
- dyauspitr 3mo agoIt’s like you can ignore the law if you have a great idea that works out. Lots of people have ended up doing it. Uber did it for a long time. Musk, did it with the sale of Tesla cars. There are a bunch of examples from outside of the US as well.
- sakjur 3mo agoThat sounds like an oligarchy. Especially if "great" is measured in dollars rather than public good.
- dyauspitr 3mo agoIn most cases it’s for the public good (even if a lot of the public has to be taken kicking and screaming), atleast the examples I listed above are. Uber and Tesla both revolutionized entire industries. So did Anthropic.
- danny_codes 3mo agoIs it? Uber has been a net loss for society. It increased overall VMT, especially in urban areas, and drove riders away from transit. On the whole this is both bad for cities and bad for city dwellers. We have more traffic and less transit, precisely the opposite of what we should be aiming for. If corporations can selectively ignore whatever laws they don't like, we won't have a functioning society anymore. Our society is predicated on equality under the law. If general trust in that principle breaks down I don't see how democracy survives.
- bandrami 3mo agoCopyright infringement is in most cases tortious rather than criminal.
- inigyou 3mo agoThis clearly meets the scale requirements for criminality.
- bandrami 3mo agoIt's not really scale so much as circumvention; what got criminalized was circumventing protection mechanisms which AFAICT Anthropic didn't do
- inigyou 3mo agoThat is not the only thing that is criminalised. This clearly violates 506(a)(1)(A): copyright infringement for commercial advantage is criminal. https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/506#a_1_A https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/506#a_1_A
- Saline9515 3mo agoJail for copying bits... come on, no one was hurt here.
- yard2010 3mo agoThis sends a clear message and it echoes the "you can't solve a societal problem with tech" comment from the other thread - there is a right way and a wrong way of breaking the law. It's not that you have to keep the law, you just need to break it in the way that the consequences can be contained. I think it's just a matter of time until everyone learns this. And then it will be the end of the slowly dying liberal democracies.
- elil17 3mo agoThis settlement doesn't stop that from happening in the future
- ethagnawl 3mo agoRight. It's effectively a toll.
- yogthos 3mo agoit's a big club, and you ain't in it