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"Training" in this context is unlike human memory. The LLM doesn't "learn" language, nor does it truly perceive or comprehend. It's just a probabilistic model drawing from such a large pool of reference material (ie "large language"), that its output is nearly indistinguishable from human output.
November 19, 2025 at 9:18 PM
"Training" in this context is unlike human memory. The LLM doesn't "learn" language, nor does it truly perceive or comprehend. It's just a probabilistic model drawing from such a large pool of reference material (ie "large language"), that its output is nearly indistinguishable from human output.
The primary issue at the core of the lawsuit in question is one of copyright infringement: The texts have been scraped, illegally, without the consent of or compensation to the creators of the works that were used to train the LLM. Those infringed works are further used to populate its output.
November 19, 2025 at 9:08 PM
The primary issue at the core of the lawsuit in question is one of copyright infringement: The texts have been scraped, illegally, without the consent of or compensation to the creators of the works that were used to train the LLM. Those infringed works are further used to populate its output.
Anthropic didn't pay for/license the books (Libraries do), and do retain a copy of the text to recall patterns within to populate its own output.
Without a copy, it would not be able to access the text for pattern analysis & recall. This is how LLMs can, and do, replicate copyrighted art and texts.
November 19, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Anthropic didn't pay for/license the books (Libraries do), and do retain a copy of the text to recall patterns within to populate its own output.
Without a copy, it would not be able to access the text for pattern analysis & recall. This is how LLMs can, and do, replicate copyrighted art and texts.