Anthropic Settles Copyright Lawsuit Over AI Training on Pirated Books
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Emma Roth
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Summary
Anthropic has settled a class action lawsuit filed by US authors who accused the AI startup of copyright infringement for allegedly training its Claude AI models on pirated books. The settlement allows the company to avoid a trial that would have determined damages for using "millions" of unauthorized works in its AI training data. The specific terms remain undisclosed, but the case was brought by authors Andrea Bartz, Charles Graeber, and Kirk Wallace Johnson.
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· 4 pulledAnthropic has settled a class action lawsuit with a group of US authors who accused the AI startup of copyright infringement
Anthropic says it has negotiated a "proposed class settlement," allowing it to skip a trial that would have determined how much the company owes
claimed Anthropic trained its Claude AI models on an open-source dataset containing pirated works
accused the company of training its Claude AI models on "millions" of pirated works
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