[gigatree]

I’m sure you have good intentions, but that view works against the very thing you’re arguing for. Anthropic is leaving a ton of capital on the table, maybe for moral reasons, probably for PR reasons, but whichever it is they’ll have no incentive to scale back the unethical if doing so doesn’t earn them any goodwill because “oh look they stole books they’re just as bad as the AI companies creating tech to bomb civilians”.

The world is a dark place, better to reward any sliver of good than write it off for being tainted.

[parpfish]

and you can't really claim that they 'stole' books. they bought millions of physical book copies to scan and ingest rather than just scrape pirated pdfs