AI company Anthropic to pay $1.5 billion to settle author in lawsuit (youtube.com)
Largest copyright settlement. 77m books ‘illegally plagiarized.’ Put into their database, used to generate something completely different. Made a $250b AI product with it and didn't even let the authors know they had used their works.
Anthropic to compensate 500k authors $3000 each. Anthropic doesn't have to acknowledge wrongdoing.
There are 40 other lawsuits ongoing with big authors.
How do we determine the value of this use? Who decides?