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AI Anthropic settles for $1.5B for copyrighted works of book authors

Xebec

Xebec

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In one of the largest copyright settlements involving generative artificial intelligence, Anthropic AI, a leading company in the generative AI space, has agreed to pay $1.5 billion to settle a copyright infringement lawsuit brought by a group of authors.

If the court approves the settlement, Anthropic will compensate authors around $3,000 for each of the estimated 500,000 books covered by the settlement.

The settlement, which U.S. Senior District Judge William Alsup in San Francisco will consider approving next week, is in a case that involved the first substantive decision on how fair use applies to generative AI systems. It also suggests an inflection point in the ongoing legal fights between the creative industries and the AI companies accused of illegally using artistic works to train the large language models that underpin their widely-used AI systems.


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Maybe this is the beginning of the bubble pop - not sure how these kinds of settlements will be sustainable ?
 
Xebec said:
In one of the largest copyright settlements involving generative artificial intelligence, Anthropic AI, a leading company in the generative AI space, has agreed to pay $1.5 billion to settle a copyright infringement lawsuit brought by a group of authors.

If the court approves the settlement, Anthropic will compensate authors around $3,000 for each of the estimated 500,000 books covered by the settlement.

The settlement, which U.S. Senior District Judge William Alsup in San Francisco will consider approving next week, is in a case that involved the first substantive decision on how fair use applies to generative AI systems. It also suggests an inflection point in the ongoing legal fights between the creative industries and the AI companies accused of illegally using artistic works to train the large language models that underpin their widely-used AI systems.


paywall:

non-paywall:

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Maybe this is the beginning of the bubble pop - not sure how these kinds of settlements will be sustainable ?
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Why not?

Or will they render the "valuations" meaningless when they no longer getting their information for free.
 
There are a lot of potential can of worms with this settlement:

- Can Anthrophic train again with these books?
- What other similar lawsuits will this invite?
- What's the economics of AI with costs like this?
- If the USA can't train on copyrighted material, what does it mean for competition and the world when other countries DO train on copyrighted material and IP?
 
Barnsley said:
Dunno why they dont just pay for it?

Will the AI companies be giving away their services for free?
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They probably should pay for it, but how do you price using a book or other copyrighted source for something that can be used by everyone? Also, how much of an AI's knowledge actually is that single book or paper when it's trained on millions/billions of them?

It's kind of weird because you and I can buy a $20 book once, and use that knowledge forever, and freely share that knowledge. But you know the book authors will expect a lot more $$ from AI companies because they are well capitalized. How do you fairly price that?
 
Xebec said:
They probably should pay for it, but how do you price using a book or other copyrighted source for something that can be used by everyone? Also, how much of an AI's knowledge actually is that single book or paper when it's trained on millions/billions of them?

It's kind of weird because you and I can buy a $20 book once, and use that knowledge forever, and freely share that knowledge. But you know the book authors will expect a lot more $$ from AI companies because they are well capitalized. How do you fairly price that?
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Anyone who is having their information used should look at a subscription model like these firms are also doing.

What do these tech folk want , they love IP protection and charging folk for usage, however this is only their belief as long as its theirs.
 
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