"Anthropic has agreed to pay at least $1.5 billion to settle a lawsuit brought by a group of book authors alleging copyright infringement, an estimated $3,000 per work. The amount is well below what Anthropic may have had to pay if it had lost the case at trial. Experts said the plaintiffs may have been awarded at least billions of dollars in damages, with some estimates placing the total figure over $1 trillion."

Fuck their fucking insulting-ass settlement. They need to take this shit all the way and utterly break the AI industry while we still can.

And to quote highplainsdem from that same topic:

"As I've said before, I'd like to see the AI companies sued out of existence. And all AI models trained on stolen copyrighted work destroyed, to be replaced only by models trained on what's in the public domain, plus whatever copyrighted work the company has obtained a legal right to use, in advance of the training.

$3,000 for a book is a joke. At a minimum, it should be whatever the book earned the author(s), adjusted for inflation to an equivalent amount in 2025."

Oh well, I might get a nastygram. But I do check. So much to keep up with. It is hot news.

Anthropic certainly has shit for brains to claim fair use (making a profit) from stolen goods.

I'm glad you posted this.

I meant from the admin bot, if someone was counting. I posted an article about Business Insider taking down some of its own articles.


https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220614075

The names of the bogus posters are kind of wild.

$1.5 billion for 7 million pirated books only comes out to a little over 200 bucks a book, not $3,000.

Either figure is laughably small for the copyright violation and theft, especially after the lawyers get their cut.

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has done the math and recognizes that it is absurdly cheap.