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jawns ◴[] 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 ◴[] 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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terminalshort ◴[] No.45189724[source]
Do they sell their books for more than $3000 per copy? In that case it isn't fair. Otherwise they are getting a windfall because of Anthropic's stupidity in not buying the books.
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