Jaeden Schafer

And what's interesting is we're going from, you know, getting $1.5 billion for 500,000 books to $3 billion for the lyrics of 20,000 songs.

To me, it just seems...

To me, I don't think this one's going to do as well.

So I think originally the music publishers sued Anthropic over about 500 copyrighted works.

But then during discovery in the case, they saw that they found more evidence.

Anthropic had downloaded thousands more.

And so after the court denied their attempt to amend the original lawsuit, which basically they said there was failure to investigate this earlier.

Right.

They're kind of like, look, this scope is getting bigger and bigger.

And so that kind of got shut down.

After that, then the publishers filed a separate lawsuit.

And that case also said that Anthropic's CEO, Dario Amadeo, who's the co-founder, and also Benjamin Mann were like the defendants.

So they're going straight after the CEO on this.

These lawsuits always have like really intense claims inside of them.

So this is an interesting line from this particular lawsuit.

It said, while Anthropic is misleading claims to be an AI safety and research company, it

Its record of illegal torrenting of copyrighted works makes clear that its multi-billion dollar business empire has in fact been built on piracy.

And I think like, yeah, it has definitely been helped by that in a lot of ways.

I think they paid their fines for that.

This lawsuit in particular, it's,