I was not sure that I wanted to pay me the anthropier in exchange for my books – I do now

Billion dollars It was not what it was to be – but he still focuses the mind. At least I did so for me when I heard that the artificial intelligence company agreed to this At least $ 1.5 billion For authors and publishers who used their books to train an early version of its big language model, Claude. This came after a The judge issued a brief ruling that he had made the books she used. The proposed agreement – which is still being scrutinized by the cautious judge – gives authors a minimum of $ 3,000 to each book. I wrote eight and my wife has achieved five. We are talking about the dollar of renewal pigeons here!

Since the settlement is based on pirate books, it does not really address the large number of whether it is good for artificial intelligence companies to train their models on copyright -protected business. But it is important to include real money. In the past, the argument on the copyright of artificial intelligence was based on legal, moral and even political assumptions. Now that things have become real, it is time to address the basic issue: since the Ai elite relies on the content of books, is it fair for companies to build trillion dollars without paying authors?

Aside the legal aspects, I was suffering from this issue. But now that we move from the court to the check book, the film fell from my eyes. I deserve those dollars! The authors seem to pay like the right thing to do. Despite the strong forces (including US President Donald Trump) he argues otherwise.

Eliminate the responsibility for a fine printing

Before I go further, let me drop the responsibility. As I mentioned, I am an author of myself, and I benefit or lose from the result of this argument. I am also in the author’s union council, and he is a strong defender for authors and charges Openai and Microsoft to include authors’ work in their training. (Because I cover technology companies, I refrain from votes that involve litigation with those companies.) It is clear that I am talking about myself today.

In the past, I was a secret in the council, truly torn on the issue of whether companies have the right to train their models on the books that have been legally purchased. The argument that humanity is building a wide range of human knowledge that resonates with me sincerely. When I am He conducted an interview with the artist Graims In 2023, she expressed enthusiasm for being a contributor to this experience: “Oh, sick, I may live forever!” She said. This is also with me. Publishing my consciousness on a large scale is a great reason for what I do.

But the inclusion of a book within a large language model built by a giant company is a different thing. Keep in mind that books are the most valuable collection that the artificial intelligence model can absorb. Its length and cohesion are unique teachers of human thought. Topics covered by vast and comprehensive. It is more reliable than social media and provides a deeper understanding of news articles. I would like to risk saying that without books, large language models will be incalculable.

So one can argue that Openai, Google, Meta and Anthropic and the rest should pay wonderfully to reach books. Late last month, in this shameful White House technology dinnerExecutive managers alternate to persuade Donald Trump with crazy amounts that they were investing in US -based databases to meet the requirements of artificial intelligence account. Apple promised $ 600 billion, and Meta said it would match this amount. Openai is part of a $ 500 billion joint project called Stargate. Compared to these numbers, 1.5 billion dollars agreed that Antarbur, as part of the settlement, agreed to distribution to authors and publishers as part of the violation issue does not seem impressive.

Unprecedented use

However, the law can be alongside those companies. The copyright law allows something called “fair use”, which allows the exploitation of unaccredited books and articles based on several criteria, one of which is whether the use is “transformed” – which depends on the content of the book in an innovative way that does not compete with the original product. The judge is responsible for the issue of human violation He ruled The use of books obtained legally in training is already protected through fair use. Determine this embarrassing exercise, since we are dealing with the legal norms that were drawn in front of the Internet – let’s alone, Amnesty International.

Obviously, there should be a solution dependent on contemporary conditions. The White House IQ plan announced that May has not made a plan. But in his remarks about the plan, Trump Weighs in this case. In his opinion, the authors should not push – because it is extremely difficult to prepare a system that somewhat drives them. “You cannot have a successful Amnesty International program when every article, book, or anything else has read or studied, it is supposed to pay for it,” Trump said. “We appreciate that, but we cannot do it – because it is not implemented.” (An administrative source told me this week that the statement “determines the tone” of the official policy.)