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by xienze 1 day ago
You could also ask why the other side agreed to that settlement. It's not a one-way street.
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It was about piracy, though? Not fair use.
What does that matter? They were sued and the group suing them accepted at $1.5B settlement instead of something theoretically much larger and precedent-setting.
Because the judge ruled that using the books for training was "fair use". The issue was Anthropic downloading and storing pirated content and there is quite a bit of precedent regarding that already...