The judge rejects the record regulations of $ 1.5 billion in anthropic for the law enforcement trial of the AI
Justice William Alsup rejected the record regulations of 1.5 billion dollars Anthropic accepted a hacking trial filed by writers. According to Bloomberg LawThe federal judge is concerned about the fact that class lawyers have concluded an agreement that will be forced “in the throat of the authors”. Alsup would have felt misleading by the agreement and declared that he was “only far from being finished”. In his order, he said that he was “disappointed that the lawyer has left important questions to answer the future”, including the list of work involved in the case, the list of authors, the notification process of the class members and the claim form that class members can use to be part of the rule.
If you remember, the complainants continued Anthropic on the use by the company of copies hacked by their works to form its large language models. About 500,000 authors are involved in the trial and they should receive $ 3,000 per work. “These historical regulations far exceed any other known recovery in copyright,” said one of the lawyers representing the authors in a press release. However, Alsup had a “uncomfortable feeling about hangers with all [that] Money on the table. “He explained that class members” obtain the tree “in many collective appeals once the monetary regulations have been established and the lawyers have stopped worrying.
Alsup told lawyers that they had to give the class members “a very good opinion” on the regulations and design of a complaint form which gives them the choice to opt in or to go out. They must also ensure that anthropogens cannot be prosecuted for the same problem in the future. The judge gave lawyers until September 15 to submit a final list of the work involved in the trial. He also wrote in his prescription that the list of work, the list of class members and the claim form must all be examined and approved by the court by October 10 before it gives the regulation its preliminary approval.
