Three authors have filed a lawsuit against artificial intelligence (AI) company Anthropic in California federal court. They claim that the company illegally utilized data from their books and many others to train Claude, an AI-powered chatbot that generates text in response to user commands.
The lawsuit, brought by authors Andrea Bartz, Charles Graeber, and Kirk Wallace Johnson, alleges that Anthropic used unauthorized copies of their works and others to teach Claude how to respond to human prompts.
The lawsuit states, “Anthropic portrays itself as a corporation dedicated to the betterment of humanity. However, for the owners of copyrighted works, Anthropic has caused significant harm. Their business model profits off the consumption of human creativity and expression found in each work.”
Another group of authors sued OpenAI and Meta Platforms for allegedly misusing their research to train language models behind chatbots.
The authors’ lawsuit against Anthropic is the second one after music publishers sued last year for misusing copyrighted lyrics in training Claude. Anthropic has not responded to requests for comments, and the authors’ lawyer declined to comment. Amazon has invested $4 billion in Anthropic, a branch of OpenAI.
According to the lawsuit, the authors’ works were part of a pirated dataset used by Anthropic to train Claude. The lawsuit seeks damages and a permanent injunction against Anthropic’s misuse of the authors’ works.
Source: www.theguardian.com
