Jaeden Schafer

So Universal Music Group claims the potential damages could exceed $3 billion, making this one of the largest non-class action lawsuit cases in U.S.

history.

So to me, this is honestly kind of ludicrous.

20,000 lyrics for 20,000 songs, let's say, for $3 billion in damages.

So the lawsuit was filed by the same legal team, which is behind the Barts versus Anthropic.

This is basically a case where the authors are accusing them of training their models on copyrighted books.

In that case, Judge William Alsop ruled that training AI models on copyrighted materials can be legal, but that requiring the content

but that acquiring the content through piracy is not.

Basically what Anthropic did is they actually, and like, I think Anthropic was definitely in the wrong in that case.

They went and to like a pirated website and downloaded like all the books in the world and just kind of like downloaded them off of a pirated website.

So that is bad.

After Anthropic did that, they then went and purchased like every book they could.

And they had like basically factories with robots that were like flipping through the pages of all these books.

They ripped the covers off, flip through all the pages, take pictures of all the pages, upload them into their,

data set.

And like that was what they were using to train the models.

And the judge said that is okay.

But because they, you know, pirated them first, he made them pay a fine.

And the fine on that was $1.5 billion, which is pretty massive.

And then I think the authors received about $3,000 per book, there's about 500,000 copyrighted titles.