AI startup Anthropic agrees to pay $1.5bn to settle book piracy lawsuit

Settlement could be pivotal after authors claimed company took pirated copies of their work to train chatbots

The Guardian
Bad news about the new Affinity Photo/Designer/Publisher.
Canva is now somehow intertwined with it, along with all its AI generated rubbish.
Will not be touching the new version. Looks like a subscription model too.
I’ll stick with the old, purchased version I have and, if it becomes useless, I will switch to GiMP.
#Canva #Affinity #gimp #aiart #aitheft

@FSonder That’s a great headline!🤣

“Keep Ai a choice”
Should be a bumper sticker!
#aihallucinations
#aitheft
#AIEnvironmentalImpact
#AImediocrity

Adrian Bliss on Instagram: "Making art in 2026"

94K likes, 674 comments - adrianbliss on August 9, 2025: "Making art in 2026".

Instagram

Wow if anyone had any doubt that the Liberal Party's policy book comes straight from Murdoch, Ley suddenly talking about AI companies stealing content the day the wrinkly old ballsack starts banging on about it tells you.

“We have to protect content creators … that work is theirs and it can’t be taken without it being paid for,” she said.

#auspol #aitheft

Alright, y’all. Follow-up on this poll as promised…

Creative Commons published it. Afterward they shared their perspective on AI vs CC content. In short, “to get a sense of the various views on this question, we launched a Twitter poll where nearly half of respondents said, ‘it depends.’ We agree.”

https://creativecommons.org/2021/03/04/should-cc-licensed-content-be-used-to-train-ai-it-depends/

They made some questionable comments about it…

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#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #CC #ContentLicense #CreativeCommons #AITheft #EatTheRich
https://mas.to/@markwyner/114782533726610769

Should CC-Licensed Content be Used to Train AI? It Depends. - Creative Commons

While we generally support broad access to content to train AI, we also aim to increase our understanding of the ethical concerns.

Creative Commons
Hats off to Mastodon for their update on their terms of service that forbids LLMs from stealing user data. #AItheft is still theft and copyright infringement.

Copyright is dead.

#AITheft is the new art.

Long live the Broligarch reign of recontextualized technologically enhanced theft for profits.
https://www.404media.co/elon-musk-claimed-the-art-this-man-painstakingly-created-was-generated-by-grok/

Elon Musk Claimed the Art This Man Painstakingly Created Was Generated by Grok

Charles Brooks knows that people will share and alter his work. He just wants credit for his photos when it happens.

404 Media

> A journalist at the Atlantic created a searchable database of all the books Meta stole. I put my name in and that's how I know - Meta and Zuckerberg stole Stitched Up: The Anti-Capitalist Book of Fashion and the Italian edition Il libro della moda anticapitalista. Tra Karl Lagerfeld e Karl Marx.

https://tansyhoskins.org/my-books-have-been-stolen/?ref=tansy-e-hoskins-newsletter
#SalamiAI #MetaTheives #AITheft #SalamiTheft #TansyHoskins

/HT @MarciaW

My books have been stolen

I know exactly who did it and why.

Tansy E Hoskins
Uhhm
What the fuck, academia.edu??
Is there no opt-out for this? I'm not a first author on this but I do NOT want my papers fed into this bullshit. Any help..?
#scientistsAgainstGenerativeAI #artistsAgainstGenerativeAI #writersAgainstGenAI #aiSlop #ai_slop #AITheft #science #publishing #research #academia #AcademiaEdu