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@codinghorror because if you didn't obtain a physical copy of the book yourself it seems you can't get away with training on it

Bizarre but that's how Anthropic seem to interpret it - they hired someone who had previously worked on Google book scanning for their own scanning project

I wrote about Anthropic's $1.5 billion class action lawsuit settlement over pirated ebooks and why I think that, bizarrely, this may count as a WIN for Anthropic https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/6/anthropic-settlement/