Introduction to Claude 3 is seen on the Anthropic website on a computer. Credit: Tada Images/Adobe Stock Writers Sue Anthropic for Allegedly Stealing 'Hundreds of Thousands' of Books to Train AI Models
The complaint, filed on Monday in the Northern District of California, accuses the San Francisco-based company of illegally downloading and copying pirated versions of the material to feed to its large language models, which are designed to simulate human communication and generate predictive written responses to prompts by algorithmically processing the datasets they ingest.
August 22, 2024 at 11:18 AM
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Artificial Intelligence
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What You Need to Know
- Anthropic is being sued in a class action for allegedly stealing the work of several authors.
- This action is one of many targeting Big Tech and AI companies on similar claims of copyright infringement.
- The plaintiffs' counsel at Susman Godfrey and Lieff Cabraser are litigating a number of concurrent similar suits.
A new class action filed by Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein and Susman Godfrey on behalf of several authors alleges that artificial intelligence startup Anthropic committed "brazen infringement" by using "hundreds of thousands" of copyrighted books to train its flagship collection of large language models, "Claude."
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