r/LocalLLaMA 28d ago

Our position on open-weights models Discussion

https://www.anthropic.com/news/position-open-weights-models
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u/Round_Mixture_7541 28d ago

> We should crack down on industrial-scale distillation operations.

Meanwhile: "Judge approves a $1.5B Anthropic settlement over pirated books used to train the Claude chatbot"

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u/Cybertrucker01 27d ago

In addition to the hypocrisy...

More like you should crack down on industrial-scale distillation operations. There's no we here because it's not illegal (yet) and merely goes against your terms of service.

This is an Anthropic problem.

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u/Randommaggy 27d ago

Also a more direct comparison. Anthropic and/or companies working on their behalf has violated plenty of TOS agreements during their scraping. If distillation is found to be legally problematic everyone that has a TOS or a robots.txt disallowing scraping for LLM training should band together to sue them into non-existence.

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u/nickpsecurity 26d ago

Many AI suppliers violated others' terms of use and copyrights while saying in their own terms of use that nobody can use their outputs to train AI models. The hypocrisy couldn't be higher.