Anthropic has reached a settlement in its high-profile copyright lawsuit with book authors, avoiding a potentially costly trial while maintaining the legal precedent that training AI models on legitimately purchased works constitutes fair use.
This is very good news. The piracy angle was always a trivial sideshow. I'll be interested to see what the settlement will be, considering that I had a number of books that were pirated and scanned as part of the training process.
With all the investment capital flowing in, the pigs want a turn at the trough.
Estimated damages over $1 trillion, even with treble penalty how would pirated e-books ever reach such a figure?
That's according to the lawyers. The real damages are around $1.5 million.
This is very good news. The piracy angle was always a trivial sideshow. I'll be interested to see what the settlement will be, considering that I had a number of books that were pirated and scanned as part of the training process.