Comment by gpm
19 hours ago
> The vast, vast, VAST majority of the original datasets were from pirated books and the like
And there's been significant legal consequences as a result
> Also, arguably a robots.txt is the exact mechanism to follow to do the mass GET-ing
You're free to argue this of course, but the courts have largely rejected it already pre LLMs. See for example hiQ Labs v. LinkedIn
Yes, anthropic and openai have really been brought to their knees and ipos cancelled because of the legal consequences of obtaining their training data.
This would have been a problem but it turns out that Anthropic is actually valued multiple orders of magnitude more than a copy of all the books in the world. So they survived the significant legal consequences.
In a just world, the punishment can be more than just the sum of the direct damages, otherwise there's no incentive to stop reoffending.
Anthropic (and friends) proved they're willing to do obviously illegal things, and it didn't end them. Why do we think they stopped after doing it once?
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