Anthropic agrees to pay $1.5B to settle lawsuit with book authors

This settlement I guess could be a landmark moment. $1.5 billion is a staggering figure and I hope it sends a clear signal that AI companies can’t just treat creative work as free training data.

I mean the ruling does in fact find that treating this particular kind of creative work qualifies as fair use.

All the ai companies are still using books as training data. Theyre just finding the cheapest scanned copies they can get their hands on to cover their ass