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Anthropic to pay $1.5 billion copyright settlement to authors, publishers (www.courthousenews.com)
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[–] 112 points 3 months ago (7 children)

Wow, so uh, that’s gonna come out to fractions of a cent on the dollar, in terms of actual revenue generated from flagrant copyright violations.

It is deeply infuriating how fundamentally our society is designed to protect of people and organizations that are already blindingly wealthy.

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  • [–] 77 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Authors will receive next to nothing too :) Only publishers.

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  • [–] 11 points 3 months ago

    Fifty-four known class members and over 500,000 potential class members will each receive an estimated $3,100 per work, from approximately 482,000 works.

    Still too low IMO but a big upgrade

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  • [–] 10 points 3 months ago

    Still, paying even just the $3000 for a single book from this lawsuit is going to be quite hard when you are making zero profit whatsoever. LLM AI was unprofitable when the training data was free, they are even more so if they have to pay even a cent per item. And I really doubt it's going to stop with this one batch and payment and they can just go back to pirating the stuff for free.

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