What happened to the early wave of IP lawsuits against the first wave of model makers? Did anything stick/make a difference? Did _any_ frontier model company retroactively-migrate to consent-based models?
NYT vs openAI is still on going. Anthropic had to pay $1.5 billion for pirating books but I dont think that case had anything about training which is why all the labs are going the google route and scanning the entire corpus of books
As I understand it, the courts in the US rubber-stamped it as “transformative work” and allowed the theft of literally everything to stand, while establishing a legal precedent that everything they did was A-OK.