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Anthropic to pay $1.5 billion copyright settlement to authors, publishers (www.courthousenews.com)
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[–] 15 points 6 days ago (1 child)

That's why fines should always be out of revenue, like the GDPR fines, and never profit. Just because the business you did illegally was bad business shouldn't mean you don't have to pay fines for it.

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  • [–] 5 points 6 days ago

    No, that's entirely fair, and I agree should be the SOP. I was just thinking of the recent articles about how AI companies in general are hiding massive amounts of debt a-la Enron style, thus likely even their revenue figures are made up.

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