It's okay for #Anthropic to scan and destroy books, but heaven forbid the #InternetArchive preserve books and loan them out to people. smh
"Like many AI companies before it, Anthropic initially chose the quick and easy path. In the quest for high-quality training data, the court filing states, Anthropic first chose to amass digitized versions of pirated books to avoid what CEO Dario Amodei called 'legal/practice/business slog'—the complex licensing negotiations with publishers."