alt Hacker NewsAnthropic paid $1.5 billion in compensation to copyright holders for use of their content in training data.
The payment was for illegally downloading copyrighted material, not training. Training was explicitly ruled to be fair use.
Anthropic paid $1.5 billion in compensation to copyright holders for use of their content in training data.
The payment was for illegally downloading copyrighted material, not training. Training was explicitly ruled to be fair use.
Partially correct. The court explicitly ruled that training on pirated data, which is what Anthropic was doing, is not considered fair use.
Training on legally acquired / licensed data is potentially fair use.