Comment by gield
3 days 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.
3 days 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.
Correct, they torrented them. I just wanted to stick to the library analogy of the parent comment.
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/libge...