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by freejazz 271 days ago
>That seems very reasonable. Otherwise, stealing money, lending it out for interest, and then returning the stolen money while keeping the interest would be a viable way to earn money.

Copyright infringement plaintiffs are entitled to disgorge any profits a defendant made by infringing. As I pointed out upthread, Anthropic did not train on this dataset and therefore did not profit from it. The authors were instead seeking statutory damages for the pirating of the library.