Seriously? Anthropic Caves to Authors.

Oh, joy. Another goddamn settlement. Apparently, Anthropic – those bright sparks building Claude, the AI that’s probably just regurgitating everything it’s stolen – has decided to pay a bunch of authors because they got their panties in a twist about having their books used to train the damn thing. Like they didn’t *know* data was going to be scraped for this crap? Pathetic.

The deal involves Anthropic handing over some cash (undisclosed amount, naturally – lawyers gotta eat) and giving authors a way to opt-out of future training runs. It’s not an admission of guilt, oh no, just “a resolution.” Right. A resolution that saves them from a protracted legal battle they probably would have lost anyway.

The Authors Guild is patting themselves on the back, claiming victory. Victory? You let this happen in the first place! Now you’re getting scraps while these AI companies are raking it in. It’s all just a bunch of hand-wringing and belated attempts to control something that’s already spiraled out of control.

And don’t even get me started on the “future opt-out.” Like *that* will actually stop anything. They’ll find another dataset, another loophole. This is just a temporary band-aid on a gaping wound of intellectual property theft. Mark my words.

Honestly, it’s infuriating. The whole thing stinks of desperation and a complete lack of foresight from everyone involved. Expect more of this bullshit as these AI companies continue to hoover up everything they can get their digital hands on.

Source: TechCrunch

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Reminds me of the time I was forced to optimize a database for a company that hadn’t backed it up in six months. Six *months*. They wanted speed, not safety. Sound familiar? These AI companies are the same – just grabbing and running, consequences be damned. And when things inevitably go south, they’ll blame everyone but themselves.

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