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The lawsuit is just the latest in a string of copyright-related legal complaints aimed at the AI industry.
  • IHeartBadCode@fedia.io
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    2 days ago

    SlimPajama-627B Likely has pirated material in it, for sure. However, the case will likely end with Adobe just settling with a licensee of whatever copyright material.

    I’m very doubtful that RedPajama or SlimPajama went through the trouble to nix Books3’s deliberate pirated material.

    That said, the material and what’s outside of license is slowly whittling away. Bartz v. Anthropic saw $70B in license settle for $1.5B It’s likely going to be roughly the same for Adobe. Meta’s lawsuit I’m sure will go the same way.

    But in all these settlements, the company at the other end becomes a licensee of the material and it solidifies their model in a legal sense. And if the actual value of copyright can be settled for roughly 2% the actual cost. Adobe will be sitting pretty very soon.

    But my guess is the class action will go ahead till they have a list of who is looking for payment, run the books through to see which claims are valid, and all those writers get a nice check and Adobe makes their LLM in the clear.