Judge approves $1.5 billion Anthropic copyright settlement
Anthropic must destroy the LibGen and PiLiMi datasets.
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Andrew Curran@AndrewCurran_A federal judge today approved the largest copyright class settlement in U.S. history. $1.5 billion from Anthropic to authors who said their books were used as training data for Claude. Preliminary approval came last September.…
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CP Chamath Palihapitiya@chamathIn other words, the cost of distilling is $1.5B. https://twitter.com/reuters/status/2079453822083322062
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JA @jason@JasonAs I predicted on the pod.. https://twitter.com/reuters/status/2079453822083322062
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EL elie@eliebakouchthis is 269x the training cost of deepseek v3 https://twitter.com/AndrewCurran_/status/2079338783691112744
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RP Rohan Paul@rohanpaul_aiA US judge just approved Anthropic's $1.5B payout to authors whose books trained Claude. It is the largest known settlement in any US copyright case. The fight started when writers sued the company for grabbing pirated copies of their books. Those stolen texts were fed in to…
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SS Steven Sinofsky@stevesiThis is thousands of authors and almost 500,000 works. It seems to average out (no idea if that is the payment formula) to $4000/work. This all sounds like a lot but is increasingly looking like Google Books precedent which they won in court but then did these deals anyway.…
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