"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."

https://the-decoder.com/anthropic-uses-a-questionable-dark-pattern-to-obtain-user-consent-for-ai-data-use-in-claude/

#EU#AI#GenerativeAI#Anthropic #LLMs #Chatbots#Claude#DarkPatterns#Privacy#DataProtection

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.

https://flip.it/tjGf17

#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."

https://the-decoder.com/anthropic-uses-a-questionable-dark-pattern-to-obtain-user-consent-for-ai-data-use-in-claude/

#EU#AI#GenerativeAI#Anthropic #LLMs #Chatbots#Claude#DarkPatterns#Privacy#DataProtection

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.

#law#LLM #tech #art#IntellectualProperty

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.

https://flip.it/tjGf17

#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.

#law#LLM #tech #art#IntellectualProperty

#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

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

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.

https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/28/anthropic-users-face-a-new-choice-opt-out-or-share-your-data-for-ai-training/

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?

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/class-action/anthropic-settles-major-ai-copyright-suit-brought-by-authors

#AI

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

#anthropic #ai #llm

🔥 IT BEGINS

Anthropic Revokes OpenAI's Access to Claude

｢ According to Anthropic’s commercial terms of service, customers are barred from using the service to “build a competing product or service, including to train competing AI models” or “reverse engineer or duplicate” the services ｣

https://web.archive.org/web/20250801234025/https://www.wired.com/story/anthropic-revokes-openais-access-to-claude/

https://archive.ph/ZnGMu

#Anthropic #openai #claude #aicode

🔥 IT BEGINS

Anthropic Revokes OpenAI's Access to Claude

｢ According to Anthropic’s commercial terms of service, customers are barred from using the service to “build a competing product or service, including to train competing AI models” or “reverse engineer or duplicate” the services ｣

https://web.archive.org/web/20250801234025/https://www.wired.com/story/anthropic-revokes-openais-access-to-claude/

https://archive.ph/ZnGMu

#Anthropic #openai #claude #aicode

Under very favorable conditions that omit many of the real life threats, AI can’t work as a cashier.

Another illustration of “unsupervised AI will just cause a mess and humans will have to clean up after it.”

https://www.anthropic.com/research/project-vend-1

#ai #anthropic #claude

"- OpenAI and Anthropic both lose billions of dollars a year after revenue, and their stories do not mirror any other startup in history, not Uber, not Amazon Web Services, nothing. I address the Uber point in this article.

- SoftBank is putting itself in dire straits simply to fund OpenAI once. This deal threatens its credit rating, with SoftBank having to take on what will be multiple loans to fund the remaining $30 billion of OpenAI's $40 billion round, which has yet to close and OpenAI is, in fact, still raising.

- This is before you consider the other $19 billion that SoftBank has agreed to contribute to the Stargate data center project, money that it does not currently have available.

- OpenAI has promised $19 billion to the Stargate data center project, money it does not have and cannot get without SoftBank's funds.

- Again, neither SoftBank nor OpenAI has the money for Stargate right now.

- OpenAI must convert to a for-profit by the end of 2025, or it loses $20 billion of the remaining $30 billion of funding. If it does not convert by October 2026, its current funding converts to debt. It is demanding remarkable, unreasonable concessions from Microsoft, which is refusing to budge and is willing to walk away from the negotiations necessary to convert.

- OpenAI does not have a path to profitability, and its future, like Anthropic's, is dependent on a continual flow of capital from venture capitalists and big tech, who must also continue to expand infrastructure.

Anthropic is in a similar, but slightly better position — it is set to lose $3 billion this year on $4 billion of revenue. It also has no path to profitability, recently jacked up prices on Cursor, its largest customer, and had to put restraints on Claude Code after allowing users to burn 100% to 10,000% of their revenue. These are the actions of a desperate company."

https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-haters-gui/

#AI#GenerativeAI#OpenAI#Anthropic#ChatGPT#Claude#AIBubble#AIHype#SoftBank#StarGate