Anthropic has agreed to pay a minimum of $1.5 billion to settle the lawsuit brought by a group of authors who sued the AI company for illegally using pirated copies of their books to train large-language models. This covers 500,000 works, but judge William Alsup says if the list exceeds that number, Anthropic must pay an addition $3,000 per work. This is the largest settlement in U.S. history. John Grisham, George R.R. Martin and Jodi Picoult are part of a group of nearly 20 bestselling authors who have sued OpenAI, alleging “systematic theft on a mass scale,” and this ruling could indicate the likely outcome of that case.
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AI company Anthropic agrees to pay $1.5B to settle lawsuit with authors
If approved, the settlement would be the largest in the history of American copyright cases, according to a lawyer for the authors behind the lawsuit.
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The iPhone 17, Apple Watch, AirPods Pro and everything to expect at Tuesday's launch. [@TechRadar](
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Apple event 2025 live as it happened - all the iPhone Air, Apple Watch Ultra 3, AirPods 3 and iPhone 17 Pro news direct from Cupertino
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Last year, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt's "The Anxious Generation" was released. The book about how smartphones and overprotective parenting damage children's mental health has sold over two million copies. Jon Severs writes for the TES about academics' problems with the book: Shaky methodology, misunderstood studies, conclusions that go far beyond the data, and proposed solutions that start with parents, not tech companies. “Why are parents even having to figure threats out?” asks Andrew Przybylski, professor of human behaviour and technology at the University of Oxford. “Parents don’t have to pick between really safe and really dangerous trampolines — we have things in place to make sure it is very difficult to buy even a fairly dangerous trampoline." https://flip.it/9K.qEV #Technology #Tech #SocialMedia #JonathanHaidt #AnxiousGeneration #Academia #Parenting #Children #Bookstodon @bookstodon group
Portable power stations, a device to help your Roomba climb the stairs, and headphones with (gasp) wires. Here are some of the announcements coming out of Europe's largest consumer tech show, IFA.
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The best stuff announced at IFA
A ball-catching robot tennis coach, cuddly AI robots, and a laptop with a rotating screen for optimal doomscrolling.
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On Friday, YouTube will stream an NFL game to a global audience for free for the first time. Here’s how the service plans to pull it all off, from @npub1j302...tme2.
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The story behind YouTube’s NFL livestream
Here’s how YouTube plans to pull off their NFL livestream, including their “Doomsday Armageddon scenario.”
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"Blaming AI is an increasingly popular strategy for politicians seeking to dodge responsibility for something embarrassing." [@AssociatedPress](
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The president blamed AI and embraced doing so. Is it becoming the new 'fake news'?
Politicians are increasingly blaming artificial intelligence to dodge accountability for embarrassing situations. AI can't defend itself, making it...
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Few industries have been as hard hit by AI as translation. For his Blood in the Machine site, @npub10zpz...fkta spoke to translators about slashed rates, career pivots, and months that go by with zero work. "I always have to plan for the day when the worst will happen. I can never relax. Living in this AI-driven economy is always expecting the rug to be pulled out from underneath you. I invested in my profession for years, and now I don't get to reap the benefits of that investment. I have to start all over again, always putting energy into this bottomless pit they call work," says one Canada-based translator who chose to remain anonymous.
AI Killed My Job: Translators
Few industries have been hit by AI as hard as translation. Rates are plummeting. Work is drying up. Translators are considering abandoning the fiel...
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A let-off or tougher than it looks? What the Google monopoly ruling means. "The emergence of GenAI changed the course of this case," Judge Mehta wrote in his ruling, noting how swiftly money has flowed into the emerging technology. [@BBCNews](
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A let-off or tougher than it looks? What the Google monopoly ruling means
The search giant is not being broken up -so how much will it be affected by the remedies a judge has instead ordered?
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After several reports of disturbing incidents, OpenAI says it will safeguard ChatGPT for teens and people in crisis. @Axios reports: "One way to potentially mitigate these tragedies is to stop allowing ChatGPT or other bots to act as therapists — or to stop designing them to act like any person at all." https://flip.it/4bXTe2 #OpenAI #ChatGPT #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #MentalHealth
AI Apocalypse? Why language surrounding tech is sounding increasingly religious. From [@AssociatedPress](
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 ): "At 77 years old, Geoffrey Hinton has a new calling in life. Like a modern-day prophet, the Nobel Prize winner is raising alarms about the dangers of uncontrolled and unregulated artificial intelligence."
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AI Apocalypse? Why language surrounding tech is sounding increasingly religious
Geoffrey Hinton is sounding the alarm about the risks of artificial intelligence. He believes AI could become a superintelligent entity that might ...
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