The first details on the Anthropic copyright settlement just came out:
$1.5 billion dollars. Covers 500,000 books that were pirated and used to train AI models. ($3,000 per book.)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anthropic-to-pay-at-least-1-5-billion-in-landmark-copyright-settlement-with-authors-bfcdd57b?st=EKqJRf&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
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