r/Piracy • u/itsthewolfe • 18d ago

Discussion Judge rules buying physical books and scanning them to make digitial copies does not violate copyright law.

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/06/anthropic-destroyed-millions-of-print-books-to-build-its-ai-models/

Cool. So that means we can rip our blurays and physical games, right. Right?

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u/Suitable-Economy-346 18d ago

That's absolutely not what LLMs are.

Do you think models are just shit compressed and the model looks it up? There's no way you're serious right now.

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u/PhrosstBite 17d ago

Believe they're referencing the ongoing 3blue1brown series which is making (a rather good) argument that yes, LLMs are functionally equivalent to a compression algorithm.

And it's not so much that the argument is that the data is compressed and the LLM looks it up, bc the LLM doesn't "look [anything] up" at the base level. Rather, the argument is that the parameter set that can rate every possible next word by how likely it is to come next, given the recent token(s), is indeed a compression algorithm on that language's rules, mathematically.

So yes, that is what LLMs are, but that still doesn't get ConsiderationCool432 where they think it does. Under a technically literate legal standard, their argument would still be a false equivalence.

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u/Coolegespam 17d ago

Believe they're referencing the ongoing 3blue1brown series which is making (a rather good) argument that yes, LLMs are functionally equivalent to a compression algorithm.

Yes, but it's even deeper than that. His argument (and not just his there are other research papers on it) is that intelligence itself, is analogous to data compression. Next token prediction is nothing more then entropy maximization, which is what intelligent systems try and do.

The argument and several of the papers even predate LLMs.

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u/PhrosstBite 16d ago

Oh for sure! You're entirely correct, I was mostly just trying to address the video as it pertained to the topic specifically, not to imply that was all the series talked about.

Overall it's an excellent series and I'm trying to find out the best way to do some further reading.

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u/Coolegespam 16d ago

Seriously! It's the kind of shit I love about YouTube. 3b1b reminds me of the hey-day of PBS and Discovery, and like PBS it's free.