Comment by NietzscheanNull
8 hours ago
How about the $1.5 billion settlement Anthropic agreed to pay authors and publishers:
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/technology/anthropic-sett...
Several consolidated cases against OpenAI:
https://www.bakerlaw.com/in-re-openai-inc-copyright-infringe...
And these plaintiffs are representative of only the best-organized and most well-funded of those who believe that these companies stole their data. Countless independent writers, artists, and other individuals whose data was ingested unknowingly and without consent lack the resources to litigate claims, but that doesn't change the fact that their copyright was violated in service of for-profit LLM/GenAI model training. It's not a trope, it's just what happened.
I'm not sure I understand? That case says training was explicitly legal perfectly validating their whole business model.
The money they paid was for pirating books rather then buying them.