$1.5 Billion Settlement Mooted Against AI Company
This is still a developing story, but it appears that one of the AI companies is about to make a big settlement for work that it skimmed off the Internet and used to train its Skynet.
And yes, apparently the pirate "archives" that Anthropic used included quite a few works from SJ Games. However, the current proposal won't include us in the settlement, because the magazines and game books in question – though they did have ISBNs – were not individually registered with the Library of Congress. If you don't see why the judge thought that was a deciding factor . . . well, I don't, either. The judge also felt that Anthropic's piracy was "fair use" in those cases where the material had been taken without going through a literal pirate site.
Nevertheless, where there has been one settlement, there are likely to be more, and the terms may be different. And even if the rules are peculiar, this is a blow in favor of authors and against the "Wild West" of AI companies that try to profit from the work of others.
Here's a link to the Ars Technica story – and I'd suggest that as a good site on which to keep up with this case and the others like it.