I Wasn’t Sure I Wanted Anthropic to Pay Me for My Books—I Do Now

One billion dollars It’s not what it was before – but it still focuses on the mind. At least it was in my favor when I heard that the AI ​​Company had agreed Settlement of at least $ 1.5 billion For writers and publishers whose books were used to train the primary version of its large language model Clod. It came after a judge issued a brief verdict that it had watered the books used. The proposed agreement – which is still under investigation by the cautious judge – it is reported that it will provide a minimum of $ 3,000 per book to the authors. I wrote eight and my wife did five notchs. We’re talking to the bathroom-renovation dollar here!

Since this settlement is based on the pirated book, it does not really address the big problem of whether it is okay to train their models in copyrighted work for AI companies. However, it is important that the real meaning is involved. Previously, the argument about AI copyright was based on legal, moral and even political assumptions. Now the things that are becoming real, now is the time to deal with the basic problem: since the content of the Elite AI book depends on the content of the book, is it fair to create a trillion-dolar business without paying the author?

Excluding the legislature, I am fighting the matter. But now we are moving from the court to the checkbook, the picture is from my eyes. I deserve this dollar! The right thing to do is to pay for the authors. In spite of powerful forces (including US President Donald Trump) is arguing otherwise.

Delicacy

Before I go farther, let me throw away a hopper of a disapproval. As I mentioned, I myself am a writer, and I have to gain or lose from the outcome of this argument. I am also in the Council of the Author’s Guild, which is suing OpenAI and Microsoft to include writers’ work in the runs of the authors and their training runs. (Since I cover technology agencies, I refrain from votes involved in litigation with those companies)) Obviously, I am talking for myself today.

In the past, I have become a secret external to the council, that the companies have the right to train their models in legally purchased books. The logic that humanity is creating a wide combination of human knowledge is really resonated with me. When I am The artist has interviewed Grims In 2023, he was encouraged to contribute this test: “Oh, ill, I can live forever!” He said. It spreads with me too. My consciousness is a big reason to spread widely that I like what I do.

However, embedded inside a large language model created by the giant corporation is something different. Keep in mind that books are reasonably the most valuable corpus that can eat an AI model. Their length and solidarity are the unique tutors of human thought. The things they cover are broad and wider. They are much more reliable than social media and provide deeper compromises than news articles. I would like to say that the big language models without books would be immensely weak.

So one can argue that Open, Google, Meta, anthropologists and the rest should pay handsome money for access to books. The end of last month, that is shameful White House Tech DinnerCEOs fascinated Donald Trump with the insane amount of investment in the US-based data center to meet AI’s claim. Apple has promised $ 600 billion and Meta says it matches that amount. Openai Stargate is part of a $ 500 billion joint venture. In comparison to this number, the ethnographic, as part of the settlement, does not seem so impressive that the ethnic $ 1.5 billion in a violation of the cases is so impressive.

Wrong

Nevertheless, it may be good that the law is in favor of those companies. Copyright law allows for something called “fair use” that allows incomplete absorption of books and articles based on several criteria, one of which is “converter” – it creates the content of the book in an innovative manner that does not compete with the original product. Ethnograph The verdict Using legally found books in training is truly protected by fair use. This is a bad practice to determine, since we are working on legal yards painted before the Internet – AI alone.

Obviously, a solution needs to be based on contemporary situations. The AI ​​Action Plan of the White House has announced that it does not offer any proposal. However Trump in his comments about the plan Weight in the issue. In his view, writers should not pay – because it is very difficult to set up a system that will pay them roughly. Trump said, “Every article, book or everything you read or read, is supposed to pay for you,” you can’t expect any successful AI program. “” We appreciate it, but not just to do it – because it is not to be done. “