Submitted 4 hours ago by chobeat@lemmy.ml to technology@lemmy.world
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"This historic settlement will benefit all class members," Nelson said. "We look forward to announcing details of the settlement in the coming weeks."
The details aren't known yet but it sounds like maybe AI companies may stop training by illegally downloading books
$5 says they’re allowed to keep whatever they already have.
And they’ve already downloaded basically all the available media currently in existence.
This is awesome news!
I’m not getting too excited yet. All class action lawsuits I’ve heard of end up netting individual members only a few bucks each. Unless the settlement specifically grants authors right to opt out of AI scraping, it’s only a small victory. Hopefully settlement details will come out soon.
I’ve been part of a class action suite that netted me several hundred dollars, but it was a rarity, most others I’ve participated in ended up with me receiving between $1-20.
There are websites where you can sign up for class actions (a lot of them require no proof) and they make like a hundred or hundreds each year.
I would lose the checks before I cashed them probably.
frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 hours ago
Journalists need to stop this shit. Yes, it would financially ruin them. It’d ruin them the same way drug dealers would be financially ruined if you confiscated their drugs.
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 3 minutes ago
Yeah. Still, if you know any authors, encourage them to file.