Comment by gpm

2 days ago

In this world too, the punishment was, ballpark, 100x direct damages.

> In this world too, the punishment was, ballpark, 100x direct damages.

Which ballpark are you playing in to come to a number like that? I have friends whom are authors, and they've certainly not seen a penny from Anthropic. I somehow doubt they're the only ones out there that haven't been compensated for having their work blatantly stolen. In a just world we'd be ensuring Anthropic was destroyed as a result of their actions, since their entire existence hinged on en-masse piracy.

  • Anthropic paid (or is paying, not sure the schedule for class members receiving payouts) 3000 per work they were found to have infringed - 30 is a fair approximation of the cost to buy a book.

  • In a just world, copyright should be abolished with extreme prejudice should it's continued existence prevent humanity from developing aligned artificial super intelligence.

    • I disagree on so many levels that it would be impossible to have a reasonable debate. To give only my most charitable counterpoint:

      (If, big if*) successful AGI will be such an accelerant to human thought, it should be able to reproduce every human work, every scientific theory, etc. without any training data, in a decade.

      All we have ever done as humans is look at the world and ourselves, and then create new data out of what we've seen[0]. Now imagine how much parallel compute we could throw at doing the same thing.

      [0] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=f-XyJ3GlrWw

      * Big, enormous, trillion dollar if.