Current Project: Reading books about entrepreneurs and sharing what I learned from them

Mission: Create a library of wisdom from notable entrepreneurs that current entrepreneurs can leverage to increase their chances of success

What I struggled with:

·      No material struggles last week

What I learned:

• The lawsuit by a group of authors against Anthropic, parent company to Claude AI, resulted in a $1.5 billion settlement last week. I’m still learning about this and similar cases brought against firms like Anthropic. From what I can tell, using books to train the Anthropic models isn’t what got Anthropic in trouble. The lawsuit was for copyright infringement and Anthropic not compensating the creators of the copyrighted books. Anthropic used pirated books to train its models, which means authors weren’t paid for the use of their books in model training, a key issue that appears to have led to the settlement. I get the impression that if Anthropic had purchased the books, it could have used them freely to train the models because the authors would have been compensated for the use of their copyrighted work.

That’s what I learned and struggled with last week.