US Authors Prepare Class-Action Lawsuit Against Anthropic Over AI Book Piracy
TL;DR
A California federal judge has allowed a class-action lawsuit against Anthropic, alleging the AI company downloaded up to seven million copyrighted books from pirated sources to train its chatbot Claude, violating the Copyright Act. The lawsuit, filed by authors including Andrea Bartz, Charles Graeber, and Kirk Wallace Johnson, joins a broader trend of legal actions against AI firms over copyright issues, with some cases focusing on unauthorized data use and others on licensing disputes.
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