News AI industry horrified to face largest copyright class action ever certified

[AgentPete]

AI industry groups are urging an appeals court to block what they say is the largest copyright class action ever certified. They've warned that a single lawsuit raised by three authors over Anthropic's AI training now threatens to "financially ruin" the entire AI industry if up to 7 million claimants end up joining the litigation and forcing a settlement.

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AI industry horrified to face largest copyright class action ever certified

Copyright class actions could financially ruin AI industry, trade groups say.

arstechnica.com

I'm not optimistic, given the state of endemic, naked corruption that’s been normalised now in Trump’s America. The AI boys are not short of a few bill of VC cash to throw at the feet of the right people.

One comment sums it up: “Their entire argument is essentially this will bankrupt us so please don't let it happen.”

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Also backing Anthropic's appeal, advocates representing authors, libraries, and digital rights groups—including Authors Alliance, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, American Library Association, Association of Research Libraries, and Public Knowledge—pointed out that the Google Books case showed that proving ownership is anything but straightforward.

The above organisations need to explain very clearly to authors why they’re taking this position. To me, I’m afraid it looks like they suckers.

 

[Pamela Jo]

To me, I’m afraid it looks like they suckers."
Well they suck if they are not taking a stand for bankrupting AI.

"Also backing Anthropic's appeal, advocates representing authors, libraries, and digital rights groups" These organisations are pro AI or anti? I would think anti and so SHOULD be SO much more vocal. And where is the SOA?

Son Jack is working on the new Vikings which is meant to revive the original because the Valhalla version was so much shite imagined by nepo babies. Think 1950 shoot em up westerns.
He's seeing a future where there is no place to rise thru the ranks and learn the craft because costume and makeup is no longer needed as background artists are all AI generated, ditto camera operators, grips etc... There is no room for new ideas and this summer's crop of movies bear that out. The sons and daughters of the famous only want the illusion of employment to talk about at Burning Man or Coachella.
If publishing swallows the Koolaid and nothing outside old tropes gets published then it's just the snake swallowing its own tail. Maybe it's no surprise that Bollywood and Korean music and film are roaring down the track. AI knows only English.