Anthropic settles with authors in a copyright lawsuit
The AI company Anthropic seems to be trying to avoid higher penalties after a copyright lawsuit and is offering a settlement. Authors of the affected works should be compensated.
The details
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The AI company Anthropic wants to pay book authors $1.5 billion in compensation for the unauthorized use of their works. That amounts to about $3,000 per work. Around 500,000 books were used to train the chatbot Claude.
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Anthropic wants to avoid a lawsuit with the settlement, which could lead to much higher penalties. Up to $150,000 could be due per affected work.
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The judge acknowledges the possibility of “Fair Use” in AI training but rejects it for downloads from pirated websites. It was also found that Anthropic knew the sources were illegal.
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Claude is one of the most successful AI chatbots alongside OpenAI’s ChatGPT. The case highlights the pressure on the AI industry to solve copyright problems.
Our thoughts
AI companies like Anthropic or OpenAI are often accused of using copyrighted data to train their AI models. The settlement shows that using copyrighted data can be expensive.
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