A Cynical Read on Anthropic's Book Settlement
There I was, just sitting there enjoying life when I got the push notification that Anthropic had settled their case with book publishers over potential copyright infringement related to the downloading of books used to train their models. Good on them, I thought. Despite seemingly everyone else doing some type of infringing, and despite winning a related case, they knew they were in the wrong and were taking the high road. What was the settlement amount? Maybe a few million? Maybe $50 million?I...
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