There is going to be so much wailing and gnashing of teeth when the settlement is made public. So many people are just completely out of touch.
Free advice: When that happens, have a little think about what news sources caused you to wallow in disinformation. Consider that that makes you completely incapable of advocating for your own interests or even understanding where those interests lie.
Financially ruining the AI industry would be an awesome side-benefit.
How about we get a fucking ruling against these companies? A settlement doesn’t create a precedent.
Hence the reason they settle.
If every author in the class filed a claim, industry advocates warned, it would “financially ruin” the entire AI industry.
Journalists need to stop this shit. Yes, it would financially ruin them. It’d ruin them the same way drug dealers would be financially ruined if you confiscated their drugs.
Not having a feasible business model tends to be bad for companies in general.
Yeah. Still, if you know any authors, encourage them to file.
I’m not getting too excited yet. All class action lawsuits I’ve heard of end up netting individual members only a few bucks each. Unless the settlement specifically grants authors right to opt out of AI scraping, it’s only a small victory. Hopefully settlement details will come out soon.
I’ve been part of a class action suite that netted me several hundred dollars, but it was a rarity, most others I’ve participated in ended up with me receiving between $1-20.
There are websites where you can sign up for class actions (a lot of them require no proof) and people make like a hundred or hundreds each year.
I would lose the checks before I cashed them probably, but if you have a lot of free time and are organized you can make a little money.
Most of the ones I’ve been a part of I’ve had to provide information that proves that I was negatively affected, but there have been a couple that I didn’t have to do that. Generally I think the ones where you have to provide proof lean towards being higher in the amount of money you get, but that’s only my personal experience.
Very true, the websites are usually pretty good about detailing what level of information is needed.
The no proof ones are usually like 5-$25, but if adds up. I just point it out because most people don’t realize that there is always a couple class actions that they can add their name to for payouts.
TLDR
“This historic settlement will benefit all class members,” Nelson said. “We look forward to announcing details of the settlement in the coming weeks.”
The details aren’t known yet but it sounds like maybe AI companies may stop training by illegally downloading books
$5 says they’re allowed to keep whatever they already have.
And they’ve already downloaded basically all the available media currently in existence.
It’s a settlement and not a ruling, so anything agreed will be a one off cost of doing business.
This is awesome news!
