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In this world too, the punishment was, ballpark, 100x direct damages.

by gpm 3mo ago

sensanaty 3mo ago
> In this world too, the punishment was, ballpark, 100x direct damages. Which ballpark are you playing in to come to a number like that? I have friends whom are authors, and they've certainly not seen a penny from Anthropic. I somehow doubt they're the only ones out there that haven't been compensated for having their work blatantly stolen. In a just world we'd be ensuring Anthropic was destroyed as a result of their actions, since their entire existence hinged on en-masse piracy.
- gpm 3mo ago
  Anthropic paid (or is paying, not sure the schedule for class members receiving payouts) 3000 per work they were found to have infringed - 30 is a fair approximation of the cost to buy a book.
  - socialcommenter 3mo ago
    And the typical book only sees 1 copy sold?
    - gpm 3mo ago
      No, the damages however are the cost of a single book sale (actually just the profit from one) because the only thing that anthropic did that broke the law was pirate it instead of buying a copy (as found by the court...)
- stevenhuang 3mo ago
  In a just world, copyright should be abolished with extreme prejudice should it's continued existence prevent humanity from developing aligned artificial super intelligence.
  - socialcommenter 3mo ago
    I disagree on so many levels that it would be impossible to have a reasonable debate. To give only my most charitable counterpoint: (If, big if*) successful AGI will be such an accelerant to human thought, it should be able to reproduce every human work, every scientific theory, etc. without any training data, in a decade. All we have ever done as humans is look at the world and ourselves, and then create new data out of what we've seen[0]. Now imagine how much parallel compute we could throw at doing the same thing. [0] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=f-XyJ3GlrWw https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=f-XyJ3GlrWw * Big, enormous, trillion dollar if.

In this world too, the punishment was, ballpark, 100x direct damages.

by gpm 3mo ago

In this world too, the punishment was, ballpark, 100x direct damages.

> In this world too, the punishment was, ballpark, 100x direct damages. Which ballpark are you playing in to come to a number like that? I have friends whom are authors, and they've certainly not seen a penny from Anthropic. I somehow doubt they're the only ones out there that haven't been compensated for having their work blatantly stolen. In a just world we'd be ensuring Anthropic was destroyed as a result of their actions, since their entire existence hinged on en-masse piracy.

gpm 3mo ago
Anthropic paid (or is paying, not sure the schedule for class members receiving payouts) 3000 per work they were found to have infringed - 30 is a fair approximation of the cost to buy a book.
- socialcommenter 3mo ago
  And the typical book only sees 1 copy sold?
  - gpm 3mo ago
    No, the damages however are the cost of a single book sale (actually just the profit from one) because the only thing that anthropic did that broke the law was pirate it instead of buying a copy (as found by the court...)
stevenhuang 3mo ago
In a just world, copyright should be abolished with extreme prejudice should it's continued existence prevent humanity from developing aligned artificial super intelligence.
- socialcommenter 3mo ago
  I disagree on so many levels that it would be impossible to have a reasonable debate. To give only my most charitable counterpoint: (If, big if*) successful AGI will be such an accelerant to human thought, it should be able to reproduce every human work, every scientific theory, etc. without any training data, in a decade. All we have ever done as humans is look at the world and ourselves, and then create new data out of what we've seen[0]. Now imagine how much parallel compute we could throw at doing the same thing. [0] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=f-XyJ3GlrWw https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=f-XyJ3GlrWw * Big, enormous, trillion dollar if.