• VibeSurgeon@piefed.social
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    6 hours ago

    No, that was never the case. Anthropic got told in court that using copyrighted works that they had legally procured for model training was fair use, but since they had used a pirated data set, they got ruled against - there’s no fair use protection for things you haven’t actually bought. Subsequently, they settled that lawsuit for $1.5B

    • Antagnostic@lemmy.world
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      4 hours ago

      Yeah, thanks for clarifying. I was more saying it with tongue in cheek as a jab at meta’s bittorrenting books, which even itself isn’t settled.