Anthropic wins key US ruling on AI training in authors' copyright lawsuit

The most important part of the ruling is the revelation that Anthropic pirated 7 million books.

So, why did you change the focus of the debate? We're not allowed to talk about copyright infringement on this site?

That's just wrong.

Given what we've seen in terms of RIAA and MPAA prosecuting small numbers of copies of songs or movies, Anthropic is guilty of copyright infringement. Will it be found guilty? Probably not. There's a high court for the wealthy, and a low court for the rest of us.

While the giant numbers of maximum penalties are perennially popular, it may be interesting to note that the minimum statutory damages if Anthropic is found to have pirated that many works inncocently is $2.1 billion, and non-innocently $5.25 billion.