Cost of doing business.
Alsup had dealt the case a mixed ruling last summer, finding that training AI chatbots on copyrighted books wasn’t illegal
So it’s fine that I train my Organic Intelligence on copyrighted material then, right?
No, you gotta pay $3,000 to read the book.
yes but AI isn’t making any money either
Only if you don’t count venture capital as profit!
$3000 doesn’t sound like a very good deal for any of the successful books
“cool I can almost pay a month’s rent with this” —some author
ip rights holders in shambles, unlimited piracy on the first world.
Pennies
Zizeks self plagiarizing ass must have gotten paid.
Anthropic gets a slap on the wrist for piracy, meanwhile the RIAA tried to bury actual children in lawsuits for downloading MP3s in the 2000s.











