▲ 274 ▼ Anthropic to pay $1.5 billion copyright settlement to authors, publishers (www.courthousenews.com) submitted 3 months ago by sanitation@lemmy.today to c/technology@lemmy.world 26 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[+] itrealgood@mander.xyz 22 points 3 months ago (3 children) [deleted] permalink fedilink source hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] Pyotr@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago (2 children) Well in this case its lump sum or percentage of negative profit, so lump sum might be the better path here... Still not remotely enough compensation to the actual craters of the content they've stolen though. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 15 points 3 months ago (1 child) That's why fines should always be out of revenue, like the GDPR fines, and never profit. Just because the business you did illegally was bad business shouldn't mean you don't have to pay fines for it. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Pyotr@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago No, that's entirely fair, and I agree should be the SOP. I was just thinking of the recent articles about how AI companies in general are hiding massive amounts of debt a-la Enron style, thus likely even their revenue figures are made up. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Pyotr@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago (2 children) Well in this case its lump sum or percentage of negative profit, so lump sum might be the better path here... Still not remotely enough compensation to the actual craters of the content they've stolen though. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 15 points 3 months ago (1 child) That's why fines should always be out of revenue, like the GDPR fines, and never profit. Just because the business you did illegally was bad business shouldn't mean you don't have to pay fines for it. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Pyotr@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago No, that's entirely fair, and I agree should be the SOP. I was just thinking of the recent articles about how AI companies in general are hiding massive amounts of debt a-la Enron style, thus likely even their revenue figures are made up. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 15 points 3 months ago (1 child) That's why fines should always be out of revenue, like the GDPR fines, and never profit. Just because the business you did illegally was bad business shouldn't mean you don't have to pay fines for it. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Pyotr@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago No, that's entirely fair, and I agree should be the SOP. I was just thinking of the recent articles about how AI companies in general are hiding massive amounts of debt a-la Enron style, thus likely even their revenue figures are made up. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Pyotr@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago No, that's entirely fair, and I agree should be the SOP. I was just thinking of the recent articles about how AI companies in general are hiding massive amounts of debt a-la Enron style, thus likely even their revenue figures are made up. permalink fedilink source parent