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eschaton 3 days ago

In my opinion, as a class member you should push for two things:

1. Getting the maximum statutory damages for copyright infringement, which would be something like &250,000 per instance of infringement; you can be generous and call their training and reproduction of your works as a single instance, though it’s probably many more than that. 2. An admission of wrongdoing plus withdrawal from the market and permanent deletion of all models trained on infringed works. 3. A perpetual agreement to only train new models on content licensed for such training going forward, with safeguards to prevent wholesale reproduction of works.

It’s no less than what they would do if they thought you were infringing their copyrights. It’s only fair that they be subject to the same kind of serious penalties, instead of something they can write off as a slap on the wrist.