Brutkey

VM (Vicky) Brasseur
@vmbrasseur@social.vmbrasseur.com

Perhaps don't launch businesses that rely on breaking the law? Just a thought.

'If the appeals court denies the petition…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"…that involves "up to seven million potential claimants, whose works span a century of publishing history," each possibly triggering a $150,000 fine.'

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/08/ai-industry-horrified-to-face-largest-copyright-class-action-ever-certified/

#copyright #ai

Matt Palmer
@womble@infosec.exchange

@vmbrasseur@social.vmbrasseur.com the LLM hucksters are just following the playbook written by the waves of hucksters before them: have deep enough pockets to be able to deal with some consequences (and hire lobbyists), and get big enough before the government really starts cracking down so that enforcing the rules will be either deeply unpopular and/or economically destructive, and they'll retroactively declare your rule-breaking acceptable. See: "sharing/gig economy", cryptocurrency, etc etc.

Tim Richards
@timrichards@aus.social

@vmbrasseur@social.vmbrasseur.com @Susan60@aus.social That would do it.

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@Susan60@aus.social

@vmbrasseur@social.vmbrasseur.com

Gee, so publicising this & encouraging more authors to join could damage or destroy digitech companies seeking to ruthlessly exploit authors & damage the environment through their massive consumption of water & energy?