alt Hacker NewsI think the analogies are appropriate. Anthropic took public data and added value on top of it. It is that added value that Alibaba is targeting. If it was the underlying data, that's freely available.
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runtime_terror • yesterday at 3:55 PM
If by "public domain data" you mean stealing ungodly amounts of copyrighted works then sure
Alibaba's asking for things, and receiving what they asked for.
> If it was the underlying data, that's freely available.
A bunch of it is not, but was pirated. And "underlying data"—JFC, that's billions of person-hours of thoughtful work by real people, practically infinitely more worthy of respect and care than what these LLM companies have done, without which they would have nothing. Alibaba's being more above-board about this than the major American firms have been (are they in general? Oh no, I doubt it, but in this particular case, yes). Extra accounts to get around TOS restrictions is the lesser evil here, and it's being done to companies that did worse. This is the least they should suffer, and their complaining about it is as comical as a professional fence crying about how unfair it is their shop got burgled.
Live by the sword...