The latest in a series of cases concerning copyright and AI looks at the sources Anthropic used to train its Claude large language models.
Three authors have filed a class-action suit against artificial intelligence company Anthropic for copyright infringement. The plaintiffs claim the company used data sets containing pirated versions of their works to train its Claude family of large language models (LLMs).
Plaintiffs Andrea Bartz, Charles Graeber and Kirk Wallace Johnson are journalists and authors of popular fiction and nonfiction. They allege that Anthropic knowingly used data sets that “were comprised of a trove of copyrighted content sourced from pirate websites.”
Anthropic could have obtained licenses to use the material it took, the suit alleges, but instead “made the deliberate decision to cut corners and rely on stolen materials to train their models.” The suit states:
