US judge permits authors to jointly sue Anthropic over copyright infringement
The post US judge permits authors to jointly sue Anthropic over copyright infringement appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. A US judge has cleared the way for a group of writers to sue AI company Anthropic over claims their books were used without permission to train an artificial intelligence model. The decision means the authors can proceed as a group in a class action lawsuit. It is the latest sign that tensions are boiling over between artists and AI firms that rely on vast amounts of online content, often created by real humans, to make their bots smarter. The authors, all published professionals, say Anthropic trained its Claude chatbot on their copyrighted books without asking or paying. They argue the company crossed the line by using their stories to teach AI how to sound more human, even mimicking their styles and ideas. Judge says authors can band together against Anthropic Judge Vince Chhabria, sitting in San Francisco, ruled that the authors shared enough in common to make the case a class action. That’s big. It means this won’t be dozens of separate, drawn-out lawsuits; instead, one case, with collective weight. The core questions? Did Anthropic actually copy their work? And if it did, was that use “fair,” or did it break copyright law? Anthropic had hoped to knock the case down before it got off the ground by insisting each writer should sue separately, but the judge did not buy it. He said the underlying issues were basically the same, and better dealt with all at once. This puts more legal heat on AI developers, many of whom are already under scrutiny for how they gather the data that trains their tools. The lawsuit is far from an isolated incident. Around the world, creative professionals are pushing back against what they see as unauthorized and unfair use of their work by AI companies. Getty Images is currently in a…
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A US judge has cleared the way for a group of writers to sue AI company Anthropic over claims their books were used without permission to train an artificial intelligence model. The decision means the authors can proceed as a group in a class action lawsuit. It is the latest sign that tensions are boiling over between artists and AI firms that rely on vast amounts of online content, often created by real humans, to make their bots smarter. The authors, all published professionals, say Anthropic trained its Claude chatbot on their copyrighted books without asking or paying. They argue the company crossed the line by using their stories to teach AI how to sound more human, even mimicking their styles and ideas. Judge says authors can band together against Anthropic Judge Vince Chhabria, sitting in San Francisco, ruled that the authors shared enough in common to make the case a class action. That’s big. It means this won’t be dozens of separate, drawn-out lawsuits; instead, one case, with collective weight. The core questions? Did Anthropic actually copy their work? And if it did, was that use “fair,” or did it break copyright law? Anthropic had hoped to knock the case down before it got off the ground by insisting each writer should sue separately, but the judge did not buy it. He said the underlying issues were basically the same, and better dealt with all at once. This puts more legal heat on AI developers, many of whom are already under scrutiny for how they gather the data that trains their tools. The lawsuit is far from an isolated incident. Around the world, creative professionals are pushing back against what they see as unauthorized and unfair use of their work by AI companies. Getty Images is currently in a…
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