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Let's don't change the focus of the debate.

Pirating 7 million books, remixing their content, and using that to power Claude.ai is like counterfeiting 7 million branded products and selling them on your personal website. The original creators don't get credit or payment, and someone’s profiting off their work.

All this happens while authors, many of them teachers, are left scratching their heads with four kids to feed



That may be the case, but you'd have to have laws changed.




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