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Anthropic AI wins broad fair use for training! — but not on pirated books (pivot-to-ai.com)
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[–] YourNetworkIsHaunted@awful.systems 10 points 20 hours ago

I'm somewhat disappointed by the fair use assessment, since I think calling AI models "transformative" is a bit of a stretch from how that is normally used, but I also see where the judge is coming from. Would the analytics that go into Google's Ngram word frequency engine be considered infringing? You know, provided we ignore that the fuckers couldn't be bothered to find a single goddamn copy of the book they wanted to feed into the data shredder.