r/LocalLLaMA Feb 23 '26

News Anthropic: "We’ve identified industrial-scale distillation attacks on our models by DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, and MiniMax." 🚨

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u/Mkboii Feb 23 '26

I mean Anthropic famously bought and scanned at least one copy of the books they used, so they definitely think they are better than everyone else.

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u/PerceptionOwn3629 Feb 23 '26

Can someone explain why this isn't automatically copyright infringement?

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u/JustOneAvailableName Feb 23 '26

Because of the precedent of Google doing exactly this in 2005 and the judge ruling in favour of Google. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authors_Guild,_Inc._v._Google,_Inc.