The former CEO of Character.AI, which Disney previously sent a cease-and-desist letter to, will serve as the company’s first-ever chief technology officer.
Musk used to say Tesla would make 20 million cars and one million humanoid robots per year. The company’s board wants far less than that in exchange for $1 trillion.
Writers aren’t getting this settlement because their work was fed to an AI — this is just a costly slap on the wrist for Anthropic because it illegally downloaded books instead of buying them.