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AI industry horrified to face largest copyright class action ever certified (arstechnica.com)
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[-] halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 135 points 1 month ago

As Anthropic argued, it now "faces hundreds of billions of dollars in potential damages liability at trial in four months" based on a class certification rushed at "warp speed" that involves "up to seven million potential claimants, whose works span a century of publishing history," each possibly triggering a $150,000 fine.

So you knew what stealing the copyrighted works could result in, and your defense is that you stole too much? That's not how that works.

[-] zlatko@programming.dev 39 points 1 month ago

Actually that usually is how it works. Unfortunately.

*Too big to fail" was probably made up by the big ones.

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