Anthropic to pay authors $1.5B to settle lawsuit over pirated training material

I can't say I have any sympathy when all they did was hammering Libgen and other community driven projects with requests, likely causing them financial losses, for profit.

You can't host a public website online without feeling the traffic from these scrapers. It's more hostile traffic on top of the Chinese and Russian cybercriminals we had before the AI boom.

[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45142558