I Wasn’t Sure I Wanted Anthropic to Pay Me for My Books—I Do Now
A billion dollars is not what it used to be but it focuses the mind yet. At least it for me when I heard that the AI company exceeds anthropic anthropic A at least $ 1.5 billion settlement For authors and publishers whose books were used to train an early version to train a large language model, train, Claude. This came to a Judge issued a summary judgment that it had been paired the books that used it. The proposed agreement – what is still under control by the Beary right – would reported authors a minimum $ 3,000 per book. I wrote eight and my wife has five nots. We're talking here with bathroom renovation!
Since the arrangement is based on pirated books do not really treat the major issue of whether it's OK for AI companions to train their models on Copyrighted Works. But it is significantly that is real money involved. Earlier, the argument about Ai copyright based on legal, moral, and even political hypothetics. Now that things are real time to tackle the fundamental issue: Since Elite Ai depends books, it is honest for companies to build trillion dollar without building authors?
Worksites to, I have difficulty with the problem. But now that we are moving from the courthouse to the checkbook, the film is falling out of my eyes. I deserve that dollars! Pay authors feels like the right thing to do. Despite the powerful powers (including US President Donald Trump) that otherwise argue.
Fain print Disclaimer
Before I continue to drop a Disclaimer's WHOPPER. As I mentioned, I am an author an author, and stand to win or lose from the outcome of this argument. I am also on the Council of the author, which is a strong advocate for authors and your Openai and Microsoft is for the works of authors in their training. (Because I cover tech companies, I love to change the voices to change with lawsuit with that companies.) Of course, I speak for myself today.
In the past, I have been a secret Outlier on the Council, Torn on the issue of or companies have the right to train their models on legally purchased books. The argument that humanity building a very compensatory of human knowledge really with my resonates. When I Interviewed the arttyStrimimes In 2023, she expresses enthusiasm about being a capacity to this experiment: “Oh, sick I might live forever!” She said. That vibed with me too. Spread my awareness wide is a big reason I love what I do.
But a book embed within a great language model built by a giant corporation is something else. Keep in mind that books are probably the most valuable corpus that can include an AI model. Their length and knotted are unique tutors of human thought. The topics they cover are large and comprehensive. They are much more reliable than social media and provide a deeper understanding than news items. I would venture to say that without books, great language models would be uncomfortable weaker.
That one can claim that Openai, Google, Meta, Anthropic and the rest must be convenient for access to books. Late last month, on that shame White House Tech DinnerCEOs Donald Trump impressive with the insane sums they all invest in the US-based data centers to meet AI's calculation. Apple promised $ 600 billion, and Meta said it would match that amount. Openai is part of a $ 500 billion joint venture called stargate. Compared to those numbers, that $ 1.5 billion that antropia, as part of the settlement, as part of the infringement as part of the breach of the breach of the breach of the breaches cobil sounds not as impressive.
Unfair use
Yet it could be good that the law is on the side of those companies. Copyright law makes it possible to mention “Fair Ground”, causing the uncompensated operation and articles on various criteria, causing the use of the innovative way that does not do with the original product. The judge in charge of the anthropic breach of case has ruled This use of legal received books in training is indeed protected by fairly use. Determining this is an awkward exercise because we deal with legal yardsticks signed for the Internet-leaves ai only.
Of course there must be a solution based on current circumstances. The white house AI action plan announces that this cannot offer someone. But in its comments on the plan, Trump waited in on the problem. In his view authors should not be paid because it is too hard to set a system that they would pay fairly. “You can't be expected to have a successful program as any item, book, book, or anything else you have read or studied, you have to pay to pay,” said Trump. “We appreciate that, but just can't do it – because it is not to do.” (An administration source told me this week that set the statement “the tone” for official policy.)
