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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: 0.001s | 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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terminalshort ◴[09 Sep 25 21:49 UTC] 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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paulryanrogers ◴[09 Sep 25 22:02 UTC] No.45189898[source]▶
Some judgements are punitive, to deter future abuse. Otherwise why pay for anything when you can just always steal and pay only what's owed whenever you're caught?
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1. f33d5173 ◴[10 Sep 25 05:55 UTC] No.45193843[source]▶
Supposing a book is usually $30, then this would be a factor of 100 above that. That seems fairly punitive to me.