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A California federal judge ruled Thursday that three authors suing Anthropic over copyright infringement can bring a class action lawsuit representing all U.S. writers whose work was allegedly downloaded from libraries of pirated works.
Even though I am probably one of the affected authors, lawsuits like this make me nervous. If the decision comes down in favor of Anthropic it sets a precedent for repeating what they and others have done. I am very skeptical that these issues would be appropriately settled in the courts; we need proper regulation of this industry as of two years ago. It's likewise worth noting that OpenAI claims at least 10x the traffic of Anthropic's various products.
Also, I've been in these kinds of lawsuits before. We'll end up getting a coupon for $1 off use of Claude if the class wins, or something comparably absurd. (*)
#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #LLM #copyright #theft #lawsuit #Anthropic #Claude
(*) Years ago I was inadvertently part of a class action lawsuit against Poland Spring because I bought their water during the period covered by the lawsuit. They were found guilty of deceptive marketing because they were mixing tap water in with the "spring water" they claimed to be selling. I was awarded a $1, maybe $5, coupon to buy Poland "Spring" water.
We're in the process or lighting up our Thinking Machines CM-2 which uses a Symbolics 3670 LISP Machine as its programming front end. The CM-1 was introduced 40 years ago in 1985 and the CM-2 in 1987. While this CM-2 is a single quadrant, we plan to simulate a full CM-2 and have its iconic "deep thought" lights running. Here you can see our lamp panels displaying a clock. This work was done by Jeff Kaylin.
"It's not theft... if you say you're using it to train your AI algorithm"
Ich hab gestern übrigens ein kleines bisschen was gebloggt… über "#KI", nicht komponierte Soundtracks, rap-begeisterte Schulklassen… und vor allem über #Künstler und künstlerische Zusammenarbeit im Fediverse:
https://schallundstille.de/2025/08/12/liebe-kunstler-im-fediverse-wir-mussen-reden/
First one has AI magic (from Lightroom) removing the pipes & a preset added. Second one more basic edits and no AI removal.
#photography #LightRoom #landscapePhotography #iphonePhotography #ShotOnIphone #iphone16pro #ai
