"There is an easy answer to the question "How long does it take to write a book?" but it is not a true one. The easy answer is the duration between when you actually start putting your pen down on the first draft and when the book is finished. Maybe that's two or three years. Maybe it's 10. But the true answer is that it takes a lifetime to write a book."
"This past Friday, the AI company Anthropic agreed to settle a landmark class-action lawsuit brought against it by book authors who claimed the company pirated their works. The settlement is reported to be $1.5 billion dollars, which comes out to about $3,000 for each of the approximately 500,000 stolen works. If the presiding judge approves the settlement (which could happen as early as today) this would be a landmark case for creative copyright, the first of its kind in the AI era."
A book requires a lifetime of accumulated experiences rather than merely the time spent drafting and arranging words. Books are composed of smells, sounds, emotions, and people encountered, and they can provide a snapshot of a person's life or feelings during a period. A recent book can contain everything the writer read, thought, and dreamed about for years. Writing and arranging words for publication are not the essential work; living the life that generates material is. Large technology companies have stolen hundreds of thousands of books to train language models, and a reported $1.5 billion settlement would amount to roughly $3,000 per work for about 500,000 works.
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