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The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)
Anthropic to pay 1.5 billion to authors
That’s… quite a bit. I wonder if we’ll start to see more complaints about people reaching their token limit “prematurely” or if Anthropic will release a $1000/month “unlimited” plan or something like that.
given the run rates all these fuckers have, I half expect they feel glad it’s “as low as it is”. couple of the authors I’ve seen speak about it reckon pay out better to them (once off) than they tend to get from book royalties (I saw chisnall and some others post around it earlier). precedent from this is probably a good thing, even if I wish it went harder (esp given how likely “a fine you can afford is just a tax” is to develop as a normal situation)
re burn rates: openai confirmed in the last day or so that it expects a $118b burn through 2028. fucking obscene
According to the article, it could be higher than 1.5 billion, though by how much they don’t really say. But they’re estimating about $3000 per book. For a class action that actually seems extremely high.
But compared to the anti piracy fines for sharing music from decades ago it is pretty low.
Saw people suggest it was because the judge doesnt want to kill the goose that is laying pyrite eggs.
yep, I was seeing some folks reckon it might be 20~30x what they’d make in later royalties. I’m not knocking the suit or the value to authors - mostly just wishing it were more so it might cause an even sharper effect