I would imagine that for over 99% of the books covered in this lawsuit, they're earning less than $3000 per book.
replyPut another way, their revenues wouldn't drop much if they simply hadn't trained on those 99%.
IANAL, but the parent comment quotes "any profits of the infringer that are attributable to the infringement", which I take to mean it's the profit Anthropic stands to make based on its use of the pirated content that's recoverable.
replyGiven the entire global economy is currently bullish on the potential profitability of AI, I dare say they got off incredibly lightly settling for just $3k per book.
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