No it won't. Just their companies. Which are the ones making slop. If your AI does something actually useful it will survive.

Oh no! Building a product with stolen data was a rotten idea after all. Well, at least the AI companies can use their fabulously genius PhD level LLMs to weasel their way out of all these lawsuits. Right?

The bill comes due

Probably would have been cheaper to license everything you stole, eh, Anthropic?

I propose that anyone defending themselves in court over AI stealing data must be represented exclusively by AI.

threatens to "financially ruin" the entire AI industry

No. Just the LLM industry and AI slop image and video generation industries. All of the legitimate uses of AI (drug discovery, finding solar panel improvements, self driving vehicles, etc) are all completely immune from this lawsuit, because they're not dependent on stealing other people's work.

As Anthropic argued, it now "faces hundreds of billions of dollars in potential damages liability at trial in four months" based on a class certification rushed at "warp speed" that involves "up to seven million potential claimants, whose works span a century of publishing history," each possibly triggering a $150,000 fine.

So you knew what stealing the copyrighted works could result in, and your defense is that you stole too much? That's not how that works.

I thought it was hilarious how there was a quote in the article that said

immense harm not only to a single AI company, but to the entire fledgling AI industry and to America’s global technological competitiveness

It will only do this because all these idiotic American companies fired all their employees to replace them with AI. Hire then back and the edge won't dull. But we all know that they won't do this and just cry and point fingers wondering how they ever lost a technology race.

Edited because it's my first time using quotes and I don't know how to use them properly haha

Hilarious.

With the amount of money pouring in you'd think they'd just pay for it

I was reading the article and thinking "suck a dick, AI companies" but then it mentions the EFF and ALA filed against the class action. I have found those organizations to be generally reputable and on the right side of history, so now I'm wondering what the problem is.

Let them fight!

AI coding tools are using the exact same backends as AI fiction writing tools, so it would hurt the fledgling vibe coder profession (which according to proper software developers should not be allowed to exist at all).

They don’t want copyright power to expand further. And I agree with them, despite hating AI vendors with a passion.

For an understanding of the collateral damage, check out How To Think About Scraping by Cory Doctorow.

The purpose of copyright is to drive works into the public domain. Works are only supposed to remain exclusive to the artist for a very limited time, not a "century of publishing history".

The copyright industry should lose this battle. Copyright exclusivity should be shorter than patent exclusivity.

Let’s give them this one last win. For spite.

Well, theft has never been the best foundation for a business, has it?

While I completely agree that copyright terms are completely overblown, they are valid law that other people suffer under, so it is 100% fair to make them suffer the same. Or worse, as they all broke the law for commercial gain.

PhD level LLM = paying MAs $21/hr to write summaries of paragraphs for them to improve off of. Google Gemini outsourced their work like this, so I assume everyone else did too.

Actually that usually is how it works. Unfortunately.

*Too big to fail" was probably made up by the big ones.