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In other words, the cost of distilling is $1.5B.
Anthropic reached a $1.5 billion settlement in a copyright case brought by a group of authors who accused it of misusing their books to train its Claude AI model, the largest known settlement of its kind https://reut.rs/45cizbd
As I predicted on the pod..
Anthropic reached a $1.5 billion settlement in a copyright case brought by a group of authors who accused it of misusing their books to train its Claude AI model, the largest known settlement of its kind https://reut.rs/45cizbd
(literally from a few hours ago)
Anthropic reached a $1.5 billion settlement in a copyright case brought by a group of authors who accused it of misusing their books to train its Claude AI model, the largest known settlement of its kind https://reut.rs/45cizbd
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.
Numbers for the Anthropic class action settlement: - $3000 per class work - $1.5 billion total settlement - LibGen and PiLiMi datasets to be destroyed - largest publicly reported copyright recovery in history https://twitter.com/GarrisonLovely/status/1964043953424257257
A 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 teach the model how to answer prompts. A judge ruled that training on books is fair use, so that part stayed legal. But the same judge flagged a separate problem, one unrelated to training. The company had saved over 7 million pirated books into a central library it barely used. Storing stolen copies is infringement on its own, even without any training. That exposure was huge, since a trial could have pushed damages into the hundreds of billions. So both sides settled, and 91% of covered authors have already claimed their share. Some writers pushed back, calling the sum too small and the fees too fat. he judge said that complaints about the settlement's size were "not grounded in a realistic assessment of the overall risks and rewards of a trial," A few opted out and are still chasing their own cases against the company. Paying $1.5B to protect a fair use win looks cheap for Anthropic.
Anthropic, which accuses China of distilling its models, just paid $1.5 billion for distilling books.
Anthropic reached a $1.5 billion settlement in a copyright case brought by a group of authors who accused it of misusing their books to train its Claude AI model, the largest known settlement of its kind https://reut.rs/45cizbd