$1.5B to be Paid by Anthropic AI to Book Authors it Pirated, Infringed

The largest copyright recovery, ever. First of its kind. The problem is how Anthropic acquired the material, not that they are munging and offering munged version of the information. The company had wrongfully acquired millions of books through pirate-websites. Anthropic downloaded more than 7 million digitized books. What a brilliant business strategy. Instead of paying … Read more

Cookie Monster – Nonexistent Privacy Online, Osana Cookie Insano and Ilk

Privacy goof

Cookie Monster – Nonexistent Privacy Online, Osana Cookie Insano and Ilk Yes, the “They” have created yet another monster: Boundless privacy laws and cookie conundrums. Regard Their insanity — entire websites and online services tending to (and attempting profit from) the already boundless laws and verbiage about “privacy” and “cookies” and “consent”. Meanwhile, there is … Read more