Some AI bro made a huge order (200+ €) of rare italian books at full price with the purpose of destroying them in order to train some model
In the beginning he was puzzled why some american would want to spend hundreds of dollars to import discontinued books on mostly religious topics (a real human would never buy this stuff, it’s ultraniche and expensive), then we connected the dots.
I don’t think I could do that at the library. Wouldn’t I need to purchase the books first?
If it isn’t destroying them then you won’t need to.
I’m assuming there would probably still be some copyright issues. I don’t think it’s okay to just go into a library and steal books by copying them even if they aren’t destroyed right?
Oh no, as long as you’re using it for educational purposes you can legally copy any book you want. My college’s library actually has a book scanner set up for us to use, it’s tided me over while waiting on books I’ve ordered for class to get in. You can completely skip out on buying the textbooks if your class doesn’t require a code from the book to access tests/homework.
This is news to me. Do you have any legal sources you can point me towards? I would love to maintain my own digital library of nondestructively scanned books without needing to buy them or pay any of the copyright holders.
That would probably violate fair use, since it’s not for educational purposes: https://nic.libguides.com/c.php?g=924632&p=6664204
Thanks. I appreciate you spending the time to provide me with a link. However after a close reading of the page you provided, Copyright, Fair Use, and Plagiarism for Students: “Fair Use” of Copyrighted Materials, I’ve come to the conclusion that what you have described, whether for educational purposes or otherwise, does not constitute fair use.
🤷♂️ I’m not a lawyer, basing this off what my teachers have told me. All of which is pretty unrelated to Anthropic destroying books.
Well, it’s somewhat related as it would seem that when it comes to US copyright law, making a digital copy of a book is a violation of the author’s rights unless you destroy the book after making the scan. Even then it’s still on shaky ground as it depends on what you then go and do with that digital file.
It only seems right that when you choose to cheat these hard working human authors out of their due by stealing their intellectual work, you should do so with full knowledge of its illegality.
Dude, go google shit yourself, for the love of god. Can you do anything on your own? Do you need someone to chew your food for you too?