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Anthropic judge rejects $1.5B AI copyright settlement

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290 points nobody9999 | 1 comments | 09 Sep 25 08:46 UTC | HN request time: 0.205s | source
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throwmeaway222[dead post] ◴[09 Sep 25 18:21 UTC] No.45186193[source]▶
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SilverElfin ◴[09 Sep 25 18:33 UTC] No.45186453[source]▶
They may not have a choice. Fighting these legal battles is very expensive and exhausting. And books are a low margin business. Anthropic has access to funding. Authors? Not so much. Losing your book to AI for a one time $3000 settlement feels like a bad deal to me.
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pier25 ◴[09 Sep 25 18:39 UTC] No.45186570[source]▶
> Authors? Not so much. Losing your book to AI for a one time $3000 settlement feels like a bad deal to me.

AFAIK it's even worse as this settlement is only about downloading pirated copies of the books. IIRC the training itself was deemed fair use.

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1. Dylan16807 ◴[09 Sep 25 20:02 UTC] No.45187968[source]▶
Well things are worse in the sense that a different ruling feels really bad for them.

But it means that this case is getting them thousands of dollars instead of one or two purchases, which is a pretty good outcome.