[ianks]

There’s alternatives to wiping out the company that could be fair. For example, a judgement resulting in a shares of the company or revenue shares in the future rather than a one time pay off.

Writers were the true “foundational” piece of LLMs, anyway.

[neilv]

If this is an economist idea of fair, where is the market?

If someone breaks into my house and steals my valuables, without my consent, then giving me stock in their burglary business isn't much of a deterrent to them and other burglars.

Deterrence/prevention is my real goal, not the possibly of a token settlement from whatever bastard rips me off.

We need the analogue of laws and police, or the analogue of homeowner has a shotgun.

[gpm]

I don't much like the idea of settling in stock, but I also think you're looking for criminal law here. Civil law, and this is a civil suit, is far more concerned with making damaged parties whole than acting as a deterrent.

I understand that intentional copyright infringement is a crime in the US, you just need to convince the DOJ to prosecute Anthropic for it...