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AI industry horrified to face largest copyright class action ever certified

"...If the appeals court denies the petition, Anthropic argued, the emerging company may be doomed. As Anthropic argued, it now 'faces hundreds of billions of dollars in potential damages liability at trial in four months' based on a class certification rushed at 'warp speed' that involves 'up to seven million potential claimants, whose works span a century of publishing history," each possibly triggering a $150,000 fine. Confronted with such extreme potential damages, Anthropic may lose its rights to raise valid defenses of its AI training, deciding it would be more prudent to settle, the company argued. And that could set an alarming precedent, considering all the other lawsuits generative AI (GenAI) companies face over training on copyrighted materials, Anthropic argued."