Anthropic lost a class action suit for scraping books.

[mwl@io.mwl.io]

Anthropic lost a class action suit for scraping books. Writers can register with Anthropic to be compensated for their pillaging of our copyrights.

The compensation system was AI-coded.

Anthropic can't keep track of our submissions. They don't know who wrote what.

Their customer support is AI-driven. Send a mail! Log in to a nonexistent page! Resubmit and it'll be fine!

This will be fine.

[slotos@toot.community]

@mwl I see what problems AI solves here. Genius move, Anthropic.

[mwl@io.mwl.io]

@slotos "paying people for their IP." That's the problem they're solving.

[gnaddrig@mastodon.social]

@mwl
Honi soit qui mal y pense...

[nicelymanifest@mastodon.social]

@mwl Modern life built on quicksand.

Why so many rush to predicate way too much on unproven tech. Worse - tech proven to be flawed.

[slotos@toot.community]

@mwl I suspect you might be the first person to progress that thought to “for their IP” part.

[nuintari@mastodon.bsd.cafe]

@mwl But what if you never wanted your work in the model in the first place? They have no way of removing your works?

Even twenty years ago, judges would have shut this shit down, and laughed as the AI peddlers ran out of the courtroom with their tails tucked between their legs. It is just such absolutely blatant theft.

But then big money got behind it, and now its all, "Nooooo, we can't let AI fail! The Chinese might beat us to the singularity!" We neeeeed AI for nazional securitay!

[mwl@io.mwl.io]

@nuintari Pardon me for screaming volcanically in agreement

[mwl@io.mwl.io]

@slotos Writers are notoriously ignorant of copyright.

So are programmers. Especially terminally online open source folks.

[nuintari@mastodon.bsd.cafe]

@mwl Is this.... is this a great minds moment?

[bweller@mstdn.social]

@mwl sounds like contempt of court

[xenophage@infosec.exchange]

@mwl @nuintari Can you maybe aim that a little to the east? There’s a white house that could use a new paintjob…

[rupert@mastodon.nz]

@mwl @slotos I'll grant you "idealistic about copyright" regarding people who think that copyright grants the same protection to their work as it does to Microsoft's. But not ignorant, because on paper it does.

[xgebi@hachyderm.io]

@mwl is there a source for this?

[mwl@io.mwl.io]

@xgebi it's big discussion over on bsky, and I've experienced it myself.

They're proposing corrections on my original filing to add books included in the original filing, providing multiple incompatible answers to questions on how to correct filings, and the human help desk says it's buggy software and they can't help you.

[mwl@io.mwl.io]

@rupert @slotos that's true. But folks have very weird ideas about copyright that aren't in the law. Read Nolo Press' Copyright Handbook if you're curious.

[mwl@io.mwl.io]

@nuintari There's great minds. Then there's our minds.

[sempf@infosec.exchange]

@mwl I have lost count of the conflicting emails I have received from them. It's ... tiring. Just send me the money, I'll dole it out.

[nuintari@mastodon.bsd.cafe]

@mwl Well, they are minds.....

[liilliil@mastodon.online]

@mwl such a beatiful emoji! I want’em!