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Claude AI chatbot creator Anthropic sued for copyright infringement
A group of writers is suing AI startup Anthropic, by using pirated books to train its popular chatbot Claude.
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A group of writers is suing AI startup Anthropic, by using pirated books to train its popular chatbot Claude.
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OUR TAKE While this is the first time a writer has launched a lawsuit against Anthropic and its Claude chatbot, similar cases are by no means rare. The increasing number of lawsuits filed against developers of large-scale language models for artificial intelligence in recent years shows that the intellectual property rights of original authors has not been thoroughly protected by the popularity of AI. — Iydia Ding, BTW reporter A group of writers is suing AI startup Anthropic this week, claiming it committed “mass theft” when it trained its popular chatbot Claude on piracy of copyrighted books.
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Analysis
The small San Francisco-based company, founded by a former OpenAI leader, has pitched itself as a more responsible, safety-focused model of generative AI. But a lawsuit filed Monday in federal court in San Francisco says Anthropic acted contrary to its propaganda, using a repository of pirated works to build its AI products. The case is tied to a growing number of lawsuits filed against AI developers in San Francisco and New York. The cases all stem from tech companies taking in large amounts of human writings to train AI chatbots to produce human-like passages of text without obtaining permission or compensating the people who wrote the original works. Anthropic had not responded to a request for comment as of Monday. Also read: SoftBank ends AI-chip plan with Intel
Key Points
- A group of writers is suing AI startup Anthropic, accusing the company of committing ” large-scale theft” by using pirated books to train its popular chatbot Claude.
- The lawsuit, filed Monday in federal court in San Francisco, alleges that Anthropic acted contrary to its propaganda by using a repository of pirated works to build its AI products.
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