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Anthropic judge rejects $1.5B AI copyright settlement

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290 points nobody9999 | 2 comments | 09 Sep 25 08:46 UTC | HN request time: 0s | 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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shermozle ◴[09 Sep 25 22:25 UTC] No.45190184[source]▶
It's far from fair given that if _I_ breach copyright and get caught, I go to jail, not just pay a fine.
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stevage ◴[09 Sep 25 22:29 UTC] No.45190245[source]▶
What? Who goes to jail over copyright infringement?
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hmmokidk ◴[09 Sep 25 22:39 UTC] No.45190367[source]▶
…Aaron Swartz?!
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Lerc ◴[09 Sep 25 22:53 UTC] No.45190547[source]▶
He was charged with wire fraud, computer fraud, unlawfully obtaining information from a protected computer, and recklessly damaging a protected computer.

Granted, the motivation was the copyright infringement, but to do what they did they needed to dress it up.

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1. lcnPylGDnU4H9OF ◴[10 Sep 25 09:32 UTC] No.45195309[source]▶
> Granted, the motivation was the copyright infringement

And this is why it is correct to say that he was persecuted for copyright infringement. Noting that he wasn't charged with anything related to copyright doesn't change the story, it only makes it less agreeable.

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