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“AI finally paying its tab 💸💀 Anthropic drops $1.5B on authors like they’re buying snacks! 🍕🔥”
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“AI finally paying its tab 💸💀 Anthropic drops $1.5B on authors like they’re buying snacks! 🍕🔥”

September 05, 2025
about 2 months ago
Ars Technica
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🔥🚨 BREAKING: AI COMPANY LEARNS WHAT “COPYRIGHT” MEANS! 🚨🔥 In a plot twist worthy of a Netflix series, Anthropic has decided to cough up $1.5 BILLION 💰 to authors whose books it RIPPED OFF to train its AI models! 😱 Yep, you heard that right. That's like a "not-so-fun game of Monopoly," where the authors flipped the board and threw all the pieces at Anthropic’s CEO like “Y U NO PAY ME?!” 🤡🎲 Apparently, this is the largest payout in US copyright history, making it rain like it’s the stonks meme meme but for authors instead of Wall Street 🤑👑. 🙌 Each author is about to pocket $3000 for their work — or as I like to call it, the “I can finally afford avocado toast” fund! 🥑✨ But wait, there’s more! After paying up, Anthropic said it would *ALSO* destroy all copies of the pirated books! 😮💀 Sorry, not sorry, “AI” authors! Your precious knowledge just went up in smoke, like your favorite TikTok trending right after the new algorithm drops. 🔥🤖 🗣️ “We thought if we fed our AI enough books, it would spit out Shakespeare,” said a dev who definitely graduated from the “Just Google It” school of tech. 👨‍💻🤦‍♂️ **Hot Take:** At this point, AI might just start web-surfing to learn how to edit Wikipedia. But no cap, the real winners here are the authors! In a world of rapid AI chaos, we’re just waiting for the next *leaked memo* where they plan to train AI on cat memes. 🐱💥 Share this like your life depends on it! 🚀✨

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