Jaeden Schafer

So I think that was pretty big.

But, you know, that wasn't financially crippling to the company, they have $183 billion valuation, they've raised a lot of money.

So I think Anthropic was like, and I honestly, I think they, they did wrong, but also those getting those 500,000 copyrighted titles and using it to train their model made their model the best model for like a lot of literary stuff.

So like,

Honestly, I think as far as the cost of business, it was worth it for Anthropic.

I'm not saying it was morally right.

I'm just saying I think it was worth it because it gave them a competitive edge over OpenAI for quite a while as far as tone and style of writing.

So they probably viewed that as worth it.

They paid the fine, which, I mean, $1.5 billion is still a pretty massive penalty.

They paid the fine.

But what's interesting is the same people involved in that lawsuit was like, sweet, we won this lawsuit.

Now we're going to go for music.

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.