This is not a technical problem at all. This is a copyright problem. Anthropic thought it was just a technical problem until they had to pay 1.5 billion after they lost a copyright court case

Op means a lot of those books were made before computers were used for that purpose and the publishers and probably authors no longer exist, so there is no digital copy to just reprint, unless someone scans it themselves and publishes it, risking copyright violation when done at large scale due to possible exceptions to this rule

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rpdillon 12 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> publishers and probably authors no longer exist

Who is going to claim a copyright violation?

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Sha1rholder 18 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> Anthropic thought it was just a technical problem

Did they? Then why did they "don't want anyone to know about this"? Or do you think their lawyers are dumb?

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dukeyukey 17 hours ago | parent [-]

I imagine they know the public would react like the public is reacting. Like obviously this is not worse than what libraries and thrift shops do daily, but it is bad optics.

	▲	Sha1rholder 13 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I don't think so. Libraries and thrift shops usually don't consider it a good idea to damage those precious, hard-to-reprint books. None would say anything if Anthropic only destroyed 1 million Harry Potter or Foundations