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> American AI companies have shown they are money and compute eaters

Don't forget they also quite literally eat books



Who is literally eating books?


Parent is referencing the recent court case with Anthropic, and the legal requirement of not copying books, but consuming them- translating to Anthropic having to destroy every book it uses as input data in order to comply with said requirements.




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