I really dislike intellectual property in its current form (distillation critiques, web scraping critiques, etc). The authors and artists never even end up owning the ip, it’s normally owned by random descendants or hedge fund and the slow motion lawsuits are often a bludgeon
SITUATION DETECTED: A federal judge has finalized Anthropic’s $1.5 billion payout to authors who said their books were used to train Claude, the largest copyright class settlement in US history, per Reuters.
“What happens if OpenAI/anthropic does this?” used to be the #1 question I got from vcs (which is silly because anthropic is not going to enter the reinsurance business, and if they do, we would win). Now with open source models at the frontier and more choices than ever, it