Nicholas Thompson

What is the value of Anthropic?

Okay, value of Anthropic, $100 billion, right?

$100 billion.

What percent of that value comes from like, you know, the initial training of the model?

I don't know what you say, $10 billion, right?

So, you know, what percent of that comes from all of like the media industry and creators?

I don't know.

Tenth of that, right?

A billion dollars, right?

So, okay.

And then what should be the sort of the split?

I don't know, 50-50, right?

So they're like, Anthropic is like a $500 million obligation, right?

Or

from hundreds of millions of dollar obligation to all the companies that are trained on, the authors whose books they use, the magazines, you know, the musicians whose music they listen to, all that stuff.

So there should be some way of making a deal like that.

I would like a sophisticated economist to do a more sophisticated analysis than what you and I just did in two seconds.

That would be very helpful for helping to set the market.

It would be very helpful for governments that are trying to figure out what the market should be.

Ultimately, what I want, though, like, I don't want cash payouts.