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Re:Anthropic blocks users for anything touching training larger models on Saturday October 31, 2026 @09:51PM (#50322053)
> copyright arguments in the court system

Where else are you going to make those arguments?

Copyrighted works plainly have value for Anthropic. Why aren't they paying for that value?

As a vigorous, thrusting company surely Anthropic has the wherewithal to pay for it. And if they don't, if all they can do is steal, if all they represent is the theft of the labor of others, then what good are they?

Anthropic likes to talk big on ethics: https://www.anthropic.com/news/claudes-constitution

When will they start showing some?

Re:Anthropic blocks users for anything touching training larger models on Saturday October 31, 2026 @09:40PM (#50321990)
Evidence of what? That Anthropic commits massive intellectual property theft?

Sure, here's some: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5y4jpg922qo

Re:Anthropic blocks users for anything touching training larger models on Saturday October 31, 2026 @08:03PM (#50321484)
No? The United States disagrees:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Swartz

https://www.thedailybeast.com/aaron-swartzs-unbending-prosec...

If an individual had done what Anthropic continues to do then they would be jailed for life.

Re:Anthropic blocks users for anything touching training larger models on Saturday October 31, 2026 @08:00PM (#50321469)
> One of my points of my ethical framework is that IP is valuable and should not be stolen.

Anthropic's business model is premised on intellectual property theft. They take it without paying for it.

You are compromising your ethical framework by using Anthropic's products.

Re:Anthropic blocks users for anything touching training larger models on Saturday October 31, 2026 @06:42PM (#50320968)
> Where I draw the line is asking Claude to label training data. I don’t do this.

Why draw any line? Anthropic doesn't. They actively take the world's intellectual property, don't pay for it, and put it behind a paywall.

> but I would expect it to refuse sometimes.

Why? Anthropic's dream is to be exempted from copyright altogether. They've been trying to achieve exactly that:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/oct/02/anthropic...

Given they want no restrictions on them, why should there be any restriction on anyone else?

Re:The US added a record 20.2 GWh of battery storage in just 3 months on Thursday October 29, 2026 @08:24AM (#50287826)
That's one third of what China added in December, 2025:

https://cleantechnica.com/2026/07/16/chinas-batteries-move-b...

Re:Nintendo's worst nightmare begins as Switch 2 games start running o... on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @08:27PM (#50282851)
> selling decade old games for 80 bucks.

If you keep buying them Nintendo is going to keep selling them.

Re:'Donnie Darko' Oral History: A Mind-Twisting Cult Classic Turns 25 on Monday October 26, 2026 @08:05AM (#50242301)
Wrong link. This is the right link: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/26/movies/donnie-darko-oral-...
Re:Samsung running a TensorFlow lite model on 960x540 image to track you on Sunday October 25, 2026 @08:09AM (#50230740)
> ..its literally running.. ..It's literally called.. ..its literally AlexNet.. ..literally doesn't work..

I'm not sure it's literal enough.

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