Imagine a super intelligent speed reading human in a library. If they read all t...

AlecSchueler · 2026-06-13T06:26:25 1781331985

> Imagine a super intelligent speed reading human in a library.

If human abilities were different then human laws would be different. We don't have speed limits for joggers but we do for cars because their abilities are materially different.

camel-cdr · 2026-06-13T08:23:22 1781339002

This is not the correct analogy, because we know that they explicitly used a huge ammount of pirated books and other works.

lukan · 2026-06-13T11:59:05 1781351945

I would argue annas archive is a pretty good library.

arrrg · 2026-06-13T06:12:33 1781331153

Machines aren’t humans. Your first have to argue that an analogy between machine and human even makes any kind of sense.

That‘s the magic trick you are doing with your analogy. You just assume that human/machine analogy is true.

tylerchilds · 2026-06-13T06:59:54 1781333994

It’s a point made in bad faith, easily refuted with: “great, let a human read the books”

we quickly learn what “inequality” means, since the computer has more access rights than people

dylan604 · 2026-06-13T05:18:34 1781327914

Is that super speed reading human going to then make itself available to instantly-ish answer any and every possible question from anyone with a paid subscription?

This argument is pretty lame.

ModernMech · 2026-06-13T11:01:42 1781348502

Yes, we call those people “consultants”.

meindnoch · 2026-06-13T07:13:27 1781334807

They didn't just "read" the books. They scanned every single page of every single book in the library, then took the scans home.

Are humans allowed to do that?

NoahZuniga · 2026-06-13T08:22:30 1781338950

Yes!

Creating personal copies of copyrighted works are allowed. (Also, libraries really don't mind if you take pictures of the content of works they have.)

Lionga · 2026-06-13T09:27:13 1781342833

Well LLMs dont make personal copies they make commercial copies.

NoahZuniga · 2026-06-13T10:37:40 1781347060

I didn't say if LLMs are allowed do that, I said that humans are allowed to do that.

gield · 2026-06-13T08:01:14 1781337674

What do you mean with "then took the scans home"? Anthropic et al didn't buy all the books in the world and kept them for themselves.

meindnoch · 2026-06-13T08:05:15 1781337915

Correct, they torrented them. I just wanted to stick to the library analogy of the parent comment.

jachee · 2026-06-13T08:07:18 1781338038

Therein lies the rub: they didn't buy them... They pirated digital copies of them.

See, e.g.: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/03/libge...

asd88 · 2026-06-13T06:25:02 1781331902

By extension, do also believe this super intelligent human should have no human rights and be enslaved by Anthropic for profit?

ta8903 · 2026-06-13T07:10:53 1781334653

After you can run his clones on some amount of electricity, sure.

hackable_sand · 2026-06-13T06:08:47 1781330927

Reading this comment is like visiting a care home for dementia patients

OtomotO · 2026-06-13T09:44:31 1781343871

You can read up anything and everything about a patent, but still not be allowed to reproduce it.

The moment the LLMs ingested any code under GNU General Public License or similar licenses and reuse it without making the produced product available under the same terms...

tomalbrc · 2026-06-13T04:47:18 1781326038

Imagine a super greedy company putting every bit information they can, willingly and maliciously hiding the origin of training data, into a computer and reselling that data. Such wow. Much shittie metaphor.