Copyright class actions could financially ruin AI industry, trade groups say.

Copyright class actions could financially ruin AI industry, trade groups say.

AI industry groups are urging an appeals court to block what they say is the largest copyright class action ever certified. They’ve warned that a single lawsuit raised by three authors over Anthropic’s AI training now threatens to “financially ruin” the entire AI industry if up to 7 million claimants end up joining the litigation and forcing a settlement.

Last week, Anthropic petitioned to appeal the class certification, urging the court to weigh questions that the district court judge, William Alsup, seemingly did not. Alsup allegedly failed to conduct a “rigorous analysis” of the potential class and instead based his judgment on his “50 years” of experience, Anthropic said.

  • Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    5·
    4 months ago

    A source for LLMs not being conscious?? If you have evidence to the contrary a lot of people are about to get very excited.

    • Plebcouncilman@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      12·
      4 months ago

      That’s a very interesting point I hadn’t thought about. I don’t know, you would need to define what consciousness is very carefully to make the claim that it isn’t I think. I actually read a lot about this, in the context of non human animal mostly, and there’s even growing evidence for insects being conscious so I don’t even know what to make of this.

            • Plebcouncilman@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
              0·
              4 months ago

              But that’s not what’s being discussed at all. It feels like you’re not following the comments well or maybe you’re not seeing all of them.

              The discussion was whether AI is creative or not, and whether its creativity is materially different from that of a human. Now because someone else brought up a very good blog post I’ve shifted my stance a little bit, because AI at this point is simply an extension of human creativity, so yes it does not matter whether it is conscious or not, it’s a tool. No one is coddling it, but this is like saying we should disappear guns from existence. A technology cannot be uninvented! I wish we could uninvent nukes for example, but we can’t and they still proliferate around the world no matter what the moral or legal posturing around them because if you don’t have them you are at a disadvantage therefore you need to have them or be at risk of being destroyed by your enemies.