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AUTHORS SUE CLAUDE AI CHATBOT CREATOR ANTHROPIC FOR COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT
AppleMagazine
|August 23, 2024
A group of authors is suing artificial intelligence startup Anthropic, alleging it committed "largescale theft” in training its popular chatbot Claude on pirated copies of copyrighted books.
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While similar lawsuits have piled up for more than a year against competitor OpenAl, maker of ChatGPT, this is the first from writers to target Anthropic and its Claude chatbot.
The smaller San Francisco-based company - founded by ex-OpenAl leaders - has marketed itself as the more responsible and safety-focused developer of generative AI models that can compose emails, summarize documents and interact with people in a natural way.
But the lawsuit filed this week in a federal court in San Francisco alleges that Anthropic's actions "have made a mockery of its lofty goals" by tapping into repositories of pirated writings to build its AI product.
“It is no exaggeration to say that Anthropic's model seeks to profit from strip-mining the human expression and ingenuity behind each one of those works," the lawsuit says.
Anthropic didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.
This story is from the August 23, 2024 edition of AppleMagazine.
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