Despite all the enthusiasm for AI, the signal from bond markets suggests that investors are unconvinced that the technology will generate sustained or widespread growth. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/10/27/world/what-the-markets-really-think-about-ai/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #ai #artificialintelligence #openai #google #anthropic #deepseek #markets #globaleconomy
Artificial intelligence startup Anthropic is projecting to more than double and potentially nearly triple its annualized revenue run rate next year, fueled by the rapid adoption of its enterprise products. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/10/16/tech/anthropic-revenue-in-2026/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #tech #anthropic #ai #tech
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"Claude’s update relies on a striking pop-up with a large, black "Accept" button. The data sharing toggle is tucked away, switched on by default, and framed positively ("You can help..."). A faint "Not now" button and hard-to-find instructions on changing the setting later complete the manipulative design.
These interface tricks, known as dark patterns, are considered unlawful under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and by the European Court of Justice when used to obtain consent for data processing. Pre-checked boxes do not count as valid consent under these rules.
The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) has also stressed in its guidelines on deceptive design patterns that consent must be freely given, informed, and unambiguous. Claude’s current design clearly fails to meet these standards, making it likely that Anthropic will soon draw the attention of privacy regulators."
#EU#AI#GenerativeAI#Anthropic #LLMs #Chatbots#Claude#DarkPatterns#Privacy#DataProtection
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Anthropic has agreed to pay a minimum of $1.5 billion to settle the lawsuit brought by a group of authors who sued the AI company for illegally using pirated copies of their books to train large-language models. This covers 500,000 works, but judge William Alsup says if the list exceeds that number, Anthropic must pay an addition $3,000 per work. This is the largest settlement in U.S. history. John Grisham, George R.R. Martin and Jodi Picoult are part of a group of nearly 20 bestselling authors who have sued OpenAI, alleging “systematic theft on a mass scale,” and this ruling could indicate the likely outcome of that case.
#Technology#Tech#ArtificialIntelligence#AI#Books @bookstodon#Authors#Anthropic
"Claude’s update relies on a striking pop-up with a large, black "Accept" button. The data sharing toggle is tucked away, switched on by default, and framed positively ("You can help..."). A faint "Not now" button and hard-to-find instructions on changing the setting later complete the manipulative design.
These interface tricks, known as dark patterns, are considered unlawful under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and by the European Court of Justice when used to obtain consent for data processing. Pre-checked boxes do not count as valid consent under these rules.
The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) has also stressed in its guidelines on deceptive design patterns that consent must be freely given, informed, and unambiguous. Claude’s current design clearly fails to meet these standards, making it likely that Anthropic will soon draw the attention of privacy regulators."
#EU#AI#GenerativeAI#Anthropic #LLMs #Chatbots#Claude#DarkPatterns#Privacy#DataProtection
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The landmark #settlement, if approved by a judge as soon as Monday, could mark a turning point in #legal battles between #AI companies & the #writers, #VisualArtists & other #creative professionals who accuse them of #CopyrightInfringement.
#Anthropic has agreed to pay #authors about $3,000 for each of an estimated 500,000 #books covered by the settlement.
Anthropic has agreed to pay a minimum of $1.5 billion to settle the lawsuit brought by a group of authors who sued the AI company for illegally using pirated copies of their books to train large-language models. This covers 500,000 works, but judge William Alsup says if the list exceeds that number, Anthropic must pay an addition $3,000 per work. This is the largest settlement in U.S. history. John Grisham, George R.R. Martin and Jodi Picoult are part of a group of nearly 20 bestselling authors who have sued OpenAI, alleging “systematic theft on a mass scale,” and this ruling could indicate the likely outcome of that case.
#Technology#Tech#ArtificialIntelligence#AI#Books @bookstodon#Authors#Anthropic
The landmark #settlement, if approved by a judge as soon as Monday, could mark a turning point in #legal battles between #AI companies & the #writers, #VisualArtists & other #creative professionals who accuse them of #CopyrightInfringement.
#Anthropic has agreed to pay #authors about $3,000 for each of an estimated 500,000 #books covered by the settlement.
#Anthropic to pay #authors $1.5 billion to
settle lawsuit over pirated #chatbot training material
settle lawsuit over pirated #chatbot training material
#ArtificialIntelligence company Anthropic has agreed to pay $1.5 billion to settle a #ClassAction lawsuit by #book authors who say the company took pirated copies of their works to train its chatbot.
#law#LLM #tech #art#IntellectualProperty
https://apnews.com/article/anthropic-copyright-authors-settlement-training-f294266bc79a16ec90d2ddccdf435164?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-09-05-AI+vs.+authors
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#Anthropic plant, künftig neue #Chatverläufe und #Codingsitzungen zur Verbesserung seiner KI-Modelle zu nutzen-
Nutzer müssen nicht aktiv widersprechen. Die #Datenspeicherung soll auf bis zu fünf Jahre ausgeweitet werden. Nutzer haben bis zum 28. September Zeit, sich zu entscheiden. Der Standard ist voreingestelltes Einverständnis. Ein Opt-out ist in den #Privatsphäre-Einstellungen möglich.
https://www.theverge.com/anthropic/767507/anthropic-user-data-consumers-ai-models-training-privacy
#Claude#KITraining#Datenschutz#Nutzerrechte#AIModels#AnthropicAI
#Anthropic plant, künftig neue #Chatverläufe und #Codingsitzungen zur Verbesserung seiner KI-Modelle zu nutzen-
Nutzer müssen nicht aktiv widersprechen. Die #Datenspeicherung soll auf bis zu fünf Jahre ausgeweitet werden. Nutzer haben bis zum 28. September Zeit, sich zu entscheiden. Der Standard ist voreingestelltes Einverständnis. Ein Opt-out ist in den #Privatsphäre-Einstellungen möglich.
https://www.theverge.com/anthropic/767507/anthropic-user-data-consumers-ai-models-training-privacy
#Claude#KITraining#Datenschutz#Nutzerrechte#AIModels#AnthropicAI
In big news overnight, #Anthropic have made a major change to their user data retention and training policy - giving customers until September 28th to opt out, or have their chats, code sessions and other artefacts used for training for up to five years.
This is a major departure from their previous privacy-first stance.
But what's really behind this change? As Connie Loizos points out in this @Techcrunch article, it's all about the #data.
As I've spoken about recently, we've passed #PeakToken - the point in history where we have the maximum amount of authentic, human-generated data available. Now, the internet is polluted with synthetically-generated #AIslop. If you're an #AI company scraping the web for new data to train on, that's bad news, because you also scoop up the AI slop. If models are trained on AI slop, they're likely to encounter #ModelCollapse - like a bad photocopy.
Anthropic's play here is all about the #TokenCrisis - the voracious appetite for new, authentic, human-generated data to train on - part of a broader phenomenon I've termed the #TokenWars.
As new data becomes scarcer and more valuable, it will be more sought after and contested. We're still in the early days of the #TokenWars, and we should expect to see more moves like this to secure more data for AI training.
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Anthropic and a group of up to 7 million authors are expected to reach a "historic" settlement soon. In the largest copyright class action of all time, claimants sued the company for illegally downloading their books to train its AI models. Here's more from @arstechnica.
https://flip.it/hs8S8P
#Books @bookstodon#USLaw#Copyright#Technology#Tech#ArtificialIntelligence#AI#Anthropic
Anthropic and a group of up to 7 million authors are expected to reach a "historic" settlement soon. In the largest copyright class action of all time, claimants sued the company for illegally downloading their books to train its AI models. Here's more from @arstechnica.
https://flip.it/hs8S8P
#Books @bookstodon#USLaw#Copyright#Technology#Tech#ArtificialIntelligence#AI#Anthropic
"#Anthropic Settles Major AI Copyright Suit Brought by Authors"
Precedent set?
Both of my #Scarfolk books were downloaded and pirated from the LibGen 'shadow library'.
Compensation would be nice.
Anyone aware of other class-action lawsuits I can join, or have any other legal pointers?
Training experimental models to behave like a MAGA idiot, so that they learn how to suppress the worst 'persona' traits in LLMs.
Unfortunately you can't do this with people.
https://www.anthropic.com/research/persona-vectors
