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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: 0.223s | source
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jawns ◴[09 Sep 25 19:02 UTC] No.45187038[source]▶
I'm an author, and I've confirmed that 3 of my books are in the 500K dataset.

Thus, I stand to receive about $9,000 as a result of this settlement.

I think that's fair, considering that two of those books received advances under $20K and never earned out. Also, while I'm sure that Anthropic has benefited from training its models on this dataset, that doesn't necessarily mean that those models are a lasting asset.

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tartoran ◴[09 Sep 25 19:54 UTC] No.45187839[source]▶
> I think that's fair, considering that two of those books received advances under $20K and never earned out.

It may be fair to you but how about other authors? Maybe it's not fair at all to them.

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jawns ◴[09 Sep 25 19:56 UTC] No.45187873[source]▶
Then they can opt out of the class.
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gowld ◴[09 Sep 25 20:38 UTC] No.45188608[source]▶
Or the judge can reject the settlement as insufficient, which is what TFA is about.
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1. NoahZuniga ◴[09 Sep 25 21:54 UTC] No.45189797[source]▶
That doesn't seem why the judge rejected the settlement. To me it seems like there judge thought that the details weren't worked out enough to tell if its reasonable.