Anthropic sued by three authors for copyright infringement, claiming it used hundreds of thousands of copyrighted books to train Claude
AI development company Anthropic has been sued by three American authors for allegedly improperly using hundreds of thousands of copyrighted books to train its AI chatbot,
Authors vs Anthropic - DocumentCloud
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25052247-authors-vs-anthropic
Authors sue Anthropic for copyright infringement over AI training | Reuters
https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/authors-sue-anthropic-copyright-infringement-over-ai-training-2024-08-20/
Authors sue Anthropic for training AI using pirated books - The Verge
The lawsuit against Anthropic was filed by three people: journalists and authors Andrea Bartz , Charles Graeber , and Kirk Johnson .
In the lawsuit, the plaintiffs allege that Anthropic trained Claude using an open source dataset called 'The Pile,' which includes 'Books3,' a set of approximately 196,640 books, including novels by Haruki Murakami and Stephen King.
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In August 2024, Anthropic acknowledged to foreign media outlet Vox that it had used 'The Pile' to train Claude.
'We have established that Anthropic downloaded and reproduced copies of The Pile and Books 3, knowing that these were pirated versions of copyrighted material, while training Claude,' Bartz and his team say. 'Anthropic has reaped billions of dollars in financial benefits from its use of copyrighted material. Anthropic's commercial interests come at the expense of creators and rights holders.'
Bartz and others are seeking damages from Anthropic and are demanding that Anthropic refrain from using their copyrighted content in the future.
Anthropic acknowledged the lawsuit but declined to comment further, citing ongoing litigation.
Anthropic has previously been sued by Universal Music for allegedly misusing the lyrics of over 500 copyrighted songs in Claude's workouts.
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