Comment by gpm
18 hours ago
This would have been a problem but it turns out that Anthropic is actually valued multiple orders of magnitude more than a copy of all the books in the world. So they survived the significant legal consequences.
18 hours ago
This would have been a problem but it turns out that Anthropic is actually valued multiple orders of magnitude more than a copy of all the books in the world. So they survived the significant legal consequences.
In a just world, the punishment can be more than just the sum of the direct damages, otherwise there's no incentive to stop reoffending.
Anthropic (and friends) proved they're willing to do obviously illegal things, and it didn't end them. Why do we think they stopped after doing it once?
In this world too, the punishment was, ballpark, 100x direct damages.