The literary community is celebrating the final word from the court on a landmark class action copyright infringement lawsuit in which the artificial intelligence company Anthropic is paying out $1.5 billion to authors for pirating their works.
But the ruling does not prevent AI companies from training their AI models on authors’ work going forwards as long as they purchase texts legally. What are the implications of this?
NPR’s Chloe Veltman reports.
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