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Comment by sam_lowry_

5 hours ago

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> This is an unethical as a company may behave, short of killing people.

This is hysterical. No, format shifting old unwanted books is not unethical. The books still exist, in an internal digital library. If copyright law were to change to allow sharing orphan works some day, Anthropic could share them. But under current law, the books are preserved digitally and used for transformative uses that all Claude users benefit from.

did not follow all the details, but my understanding is that some form of copyright law nudges in the direction of destroy after scan?