A federal judge has approved a $1.5 billion copyright settlement involving AI company Anthropic. The company will pay thousands of authors about $3,000 per book for using pirated copies to train its Claude chatbot.
Everyone is saying this isn’t anywhere near what they should be getting, and that’s true. But this also opens the door to further legal action from others infringed upon, increasing their likelihood of winning.
If it were me I’d ask the judge to order payment immediately, before this bubble pops and they get nothing. It’s all a house of cards built on sand.
Everyone is saying this isn’t anywhere near what they should be getting, and that’s true. But this also opens the door to further legal action from others infringed upon, increasing their likelihood of winning.
If it were me I’d ask the judge to order payment immediately, before this bubble pops and they get nothing. It’s all a house of cards built on sand.