A group of authors sued artificial intelligence company Anthropic, accusing it of using pirated books to train its AI models.
The class-action lawsuit filed in California alleges that Anthropic built its business by illegally using copyrighted books from the “Books3” database, part of the open-source collection “The Pile.”
The authors, including Andrea Bartz and Charles Graeber, are seeking damages and an injunction to prevent Anthropic from using the copyrighted material. This follows similar lawsuits against companies such as Meta and OpenAI for allegedly misusing copyrighted content to train AI models.
Source: The Verge
