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Re:Apple sues OpenAI, accuses ex-employees of stealing trade... by overgard on Saturday July 11, 2026 @02:03PM (#48874196)
Didn't Anthropic pay like $3 billion dollars or something for their IP theft? And yes, I'm going to keep calling it theft. Comparing a kid stealing a song off limewire to a company stealing the entire internet is not the same thing.
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Re:Apple sues OpenAI, accuses ex-employees of stealing trade... by msabalau on Saturday July 11, 2026 @04:19PM (#48875476)
Yes, they paid for actually using pirated books for their training. They were like the kid, except that it was worth suing them.

At the same time, more broadly, judge in the Anthropic case found that training LLMs was "exceedingly transformative" and “among the most transformative we will see in our lifetimes”

Copyright doesn't protect ideas or let IP owners lock up knowledge, it protects specific expression.

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Re:Apple sues OpenAI, accuses ex-employees of stealing trade... by overgard on Sunday July 12, 2026 @03:21PM (#48883778)
Yes, I understand how copyright law works. Disagree with the judge -- googling a book summary worked just as well in the past. "It can write a book report" is not that amazing.
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