AI companies won the argument about learning from books. They lost the argument about stealing them. Both sides of this fight have a reason to blur the two.
On July 20, a federal judge in San Francisco gave final approval to the largest publicly reported copyright recovery in American history. Anthropic will pay $1.5 billion to the authors and publishers of 482,460 books, roughly $3,100 a title before fees. A hardcover runs about $30. The other $3,070 is the surcharge for pirating it instead of buying it.
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