Didier 'OdyX' Raboud <[email protected]> writes: > AI companies are not a mandatory feature of our societies. We don't have to > allow AI companies to destroy books to train LLMs [0].
According to some references (including the [0] you posted), AI companies are legally required to destroy the books they scan in order to not breach copyright. Which is still terrible, and maybe it shows something is very wrong with copyright law. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Panama "In the same 2025 settlement, Judge William Alsup ruled that the destruction and digitization of legally purchased books constituted fair use, in contrast to Anthropic's prior use of pirated copies." -- Brian May @ Debian
