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It is a sign of the times that Amazon gets to call this fair use

http://observationalepidemiology.blogspot.com/2026/08/it-is-sign-of-times-that-amazon-gets-to.html
24•sonicrocketman•1h ago

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sonicrocketman•1h ago
Original full title (too long): It is a sign of the times that Amazon gets to call this fair use while huge corporations try to sue the Internet Archive out of business.
tescreal•47m ago
This has been reported of other major ai shops. It is a little chilling that they're going after rare books.

For the record, i don't much have issue with llms and such.

But... the wholesale destruction of printed books is a bridge too far.

jimbob45•12m ago
Is it? They keep the scans (somewhere). These books would have rotted in bookstores and then been trashed once those bookstores went out of business.

There’s no giant “used” section at Barnes and Noble. Libraries only have so much space and they have to cycle through books as the years go by. This is easily the best fate these books could have received.

Dylan16807•19m ago
Copyright law prefers the destructive method. It's not that they're skirting the law but that the law is set up very badly in the first place.
GPerson•5m ago
Courts found that having a central library of 7 million pirated books is against the law, and assessed a large penalty (small for these robber barons) so Anthropic is destroying them now to conform to the law. The law is bs and Anthropic is run by villains.
WalterGR•6m ago
The 404 Media report referenced in the article was submitted here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49330742

“We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility” (404media.co)

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323•0xedb•6h ago•372 comments

It is a sign of the times that Amazon gets to call this fair use

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