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Anthropic Agrees to Pay $1.5B to Settle Lawsuit with Book Authors

29 points by donohoe 1y ago

RankingMember 1y ago
same topic w/o paywall from reuters: https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/anthropic-tells-us-judge-it-will-pay-15-billion-settle-author-class-action-2025-09-05/ https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulat...
banana_giraffe 1y ago
Gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/technology/anthropic-settlement-copyright-ai.html?unlocked_article_code=1.jk8.bTTt.Zir9wmtPaTp2&smid=url-share https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/technology/anthropic-sett...
aozsh 1y ago
https://archive.ph/wugNc https://archive.ph/wugNc
- perihelions 1y ago
  I love the ironic disconnect between the topic HN is talking about, and HN's revealed preferences on self-same topic.
  - troyvit 1y ago
    On the surface it's the difference between a few thousand people pirating a shared link to learn a new thing vs a billion dollar company stealing books to make more of a profit. That's the disconnect. However in this case there are other news outlets reporting the same thing, so there was no need to even link to the New York Times. The same info is free on Reuters and AP among plenty of other places. If we lived in a just world I would be able to pay NYTimes .05 using some nice stablecoin to read that story, but like the rest of the media, while they can invest 80% of their budget and bandwidth tracking people across their site (including subscribers) and selling that data to brokers and middlemen, they can't get their shit together enough to even think like that.
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    - perihelions 1y ago
      > "On the surface it's the difference between a few thousand people pirating a shared link to learn a new thing vs a billion dollar company stealing books to make more of a profit. That's the disconnect." If Anthropic has ~20 million[a] users, this money they're freely gifting to copyright cartels is $75 per user. Real humans are ultimately paying for this. [a] https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2025/08/29/Anthropic-training-AI-models-user-data-optout-avilable/5071756494461/ https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2025/08/29/Anthropic-trainin...
      - troyvit 1y ago
        Good! I'm glad to know that some of the $20 I put into Anthropic API keys every few months goes to the people upon whose shoulders they are standing.
ClearZ 1y ago
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29 points by donohoe 1y ago

same topic w/o paywall from reuters: https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/anthropic-tells-us-judge-it-will-pay-15-billion-settle-author-class-action-2025-09-05/ https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulat...

banana_giraffe 1y ago

Gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/technology/anthropic-settlement-copyright-ai.html?unlocked_article_code=1.jk8.bTTt.Zir9wmtPaTp2&smid=url-share https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/technology/anthropic-sett...

aozsh 1y ago

https://archive.ph/wugNc https://archive.ph/wugNc

perihelions 1y ago
I love the ironic disconnect between the topic HN is talking about, and HN's revealed preferences on self-same topic.
- troyvit 1y ago
  On the surface it's the difference between a few thousand people pirating a shared link to learn a new thing vs a billion dollar company stealing books to make more of a profit. That's the disconnect. However in this case there are other news outlets reporting the same thing, so there was no need to even link to the New York Times. The same info is free on Reuters and AP among plenty of other places. If we lived in a just world I would be able to pay NYTimes .05 using some nice stablecoin to read that story, but like the rest of the media, while they can invest 80% of their budget and bandwidth tracking people across their site (including subscribers) and selling that data to brokers and middlemen, they can't get their shit together enough to even think like that.
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  - perihelions 1y ago
    > "On the surface it's the difference between a few thousand people pirating a shared link to learn a new thing vs a billion dollar company stealing books to make more of a profit. That's the disconnect." If Anthropic has ~20 million[a] users, this money they're freely gifting to copyright cartels is $75 per user. Real humans are ultimately paying for this. [a] https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2025/08/29/Anthropic-training-AI-models-user-data-optout-avilable/5071756494461/ https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2025/08/29/Anthropic-trainin...
    - troyvit 1y ago
      Good! I'm glad to know that some of the $20 I put into Anthropic API keys every few months goes to the people upon whose shoulders they are standing.

ClearZ 1y ago

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