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Re:Anthropic Accuses Alibaba of 'Illicitly' Accessing AI Models by maccard on Thursday June 25, 2026 @04:22AM (#48670545)
> That's why Anthropic switched to scanning paper books.

After they threw away all the tainted data from the pirated books, right?

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Re:Anthropic Accuses Alibaba of 'Illicitly' Accessing AI Models by ascorbic on Thursday June 25, 2026 @05:22AM (#48671026)
No, because the judge ruled that the training was fair use and the model itself wasn't infringing.
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Re:Anthropic Accuses Alibaba of 'Illicitly' Accessing AI Models by kklisura on Thursday June 25, 2026 @05:46AM (#48671186)
That sounds pretty applicable to this case, right? _Access_ to the Claude is illicit, but distilling is not. Distilling is fair use.
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Re:Anthropic Accuses Alibaba of 'Illicitly' Accessing AI Models by ascorbic on Friday June 26, 2026 @01:51AM (#48682800)
Probably yes. Maybe that's one of the reasons they're not suing them.
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Re:Anthropic Accuses Alibaba of 'Illicitly' Accessing AI Models by tidojo on Thursday June 25, 2026 @04:41AM (#48670679)
Yes, as part of the settlement
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Re:Anthropic Accuses Alibaba of 'Illicitly' Accessing AI Models by maccard on Thursday June 25, 2026 @04:49AM (#48670759)
Have you a source for that? Because everyhthing I've read tells me that they paid out a settlement but no mention of deleting the training data or the models that were tainted, e.g. [0]

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/sep/05/anthropic...

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