alt Hacker NewsThey aren't republishing or reselling. In fact, they buy huge amounts of books and then destroy them, which is better for the rights holders than to resell them.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/01/27/anthrop...
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scotty79 • yesterday at 8:01 AM
That's terrifying waste of real world resouces for no other purpose than satisfying the letter i of the absurd rent-seeking-enabling laws.
axus • yesterday at 12:49 PM
Not reselling? What am I paying them for then?
Since whole chunks of these books can be recited verbatim by these models, to which they sell access, they absolutely are republishing and reselling these books' content in a way.
Like I remember a research paper that managed to recreate the whole of a Harry Potter book from a model?