I await the inevitable partnership
They’re not mad about anything other than not getting paid for it
Most likely wanting a cheaper price.
just anthropic?
But look, i don’t give a shit about those shit factories. It’s all the academics, professional and unpaid whose research and findings were hoovered up without remuneration or credit.
The whole thing should be shut down. But we all know it won’t be.
They’ll sue wannabe Austin Powers until an “agreement” is reached for money. Then everything will be okay and everyone can get back to pillaging the general public for every last penny.
Well, plenty others with pretty deep pockets have already tried that. It seems, however, that the LLM providers have significantly deeper pockets. So it will likely come down to a settlement once again—if only because, given the already dysfunctional business model of AI providers, it would be the death knell if those entitled to compensation for their work were able to assert that right. Even if the amounts were negligible—as is common with streaming services like Spotify or YouTube—it would make it completely obvious just how uneconomical what the LLM providers are selling as AI really is—it would likely be so obvious that it would cause the bubble to burst.
In any case, It would immediately result in high costs—unaffordable on their own, even, given the volume of the datasets—and this is in addition to the fact that all AI providers are already operating at absurdly high deficits. The providers cannot afford this, because it’s essential for them to keep up the illusion, the promise of profit somewhere on the horizon at least, which is why they will likely do everything in their power to reach an out-of-court settlement in this case as well.
So, I think Sony can only come out ahead here—even a somewhat credible threat should be enough to skim off a little of the astronomical amount of capital being poured into this technology.
