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

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989 points acomjean | 1 comments | 05 Sep 25 19:52 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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on_meds ◴[05 Sep 25 19:44 UTC] No.45142807[source]▶
It will be interesting to see how this impacts the lawsuits against OpenAI, Meta, and Microsoft. Will they quickly try to settle for billions as well?

It’s not precedent setting but surely it’ll have an impact.

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1. lewdwig ◴[05 Sep 25 20:55 UTC] No.45143488[source]▶
I’m sure this’ll be misreported and wilfully misinterpreted because of the current fractious state of the AI discourse, but given the lawsuit was to do with piracy, not the copyright-compliance of LLMs, and in any case, given they settled out of court, thus presumably admit no wrongdoing, conveniently no legal precedent is established either way.

I would not be surprised if investors made their last round of funding contingent on settling this matter out of court precisely to ensure no precedents are set.