Training a model is very expensive and creates something no individual rights-holder could. Distilling a model copies this value add and captures it without bearing the cost that created it.
They only had to pay for storing the books on a server for later possible use. They did not have to pay anything for the training which was declared fair use.
This actually undermines the argument that distilling is harmless because its founded on the idea that Anthropic did the same thing and didn’t have any repercussions.
I understand you think Anthropic should have paid for the information it trained the models on. But im talking about all the costs to build a model. Do you think Anthropic didnt spend money to build these models? Did you not know that its actually very expensive?
Moonshot pay for access at the price point Anthropic sees fit, potentially more, since they likely had to jump through multiple hoops?
It's hard to feel sorry about the breach of their ToS, which ultimately is all Anthropic can argue, when they are constantly being sued by countless IP owners
Could you give an example of the value that only training a model can create but none of the rights-holder could? I feel like if you got a direct, instant communication channel to any of the rights-holder that created the content in the training set of those models, you'd get more value than what the LLM could ever give you on any specific subject.
the outputs of the model have no property protections, and training a model on the outputs of another model does the exact same thing - its expensive and creates new value over what was in the input - a set of documents.