Anthropic’s $1.5B copyright settlement approved; only 350 authors opted out

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Anthropic砸15亿美元和解版权案，创下AI领域最高赔偿纪录，但绝大多数作者选择接受，只有350位作者坚持退出。简单来说，这场官司的起因是AI公司Anthropic在训练大模型时，未经许可使用了大量书籍内容。法院之前裁定，AI学习书籍内容本身算“合理使用”，但直接盗用作品就很可能侵权。于是双方达成和解：Anthropic支付15亿美元，每部被使用的作品作者大约能拿到3000美元赔偿。反对和解的作者觉得这个赔偿太少，律师费又太高，想自己单独起诉争取更多钱，但法院最终批准了和解方案。对普通人来说，这件事意味着AI公司未来获取训练数据会更加谨慎，版权问题可能推高AI开发成本，进而影响AI产品的价格或付费模式。同时，它也给整个行业划了一条底线：AI不能随便“抄”书，作者权益需要被尊重。

On Monday, a judge approved a $1.5 billion settlement between Anthropic and authors, ending the largest copyright class-action ever certified and granting the largest copyright settlement ever reached. Back in May, some authors fought to block the settlement, which was proposed after the court ruled that Anthropic training AI on books was fair use; however, its piracy of works was likely not. Authors opposing the settlement argued that lawyers’ fees were too high and authors’ payouts were too low. Hoping to avoid accepting the estimated $3,000-per-work payout and file separate lawsuits to seek higher damages, a handful of authors tried to opt out past the deadline.Read full article Comments