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New AI Suit By Authors Against Anthropic

A new class action filed on behalf of several authors alleges that artificial intelligence startup Anthropic committed "brazen infringement" by using "hundreds of thousands" of copyrighted books to train "Claude," its flagship collection of large language models.

4 minute read September 01, 2024 at 12:07 AM
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Kat Black
New AI Suit By Authors Against Anthropic

A new class action filed by the law firms Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein and Sussman Godfrey on behalf of several authors alleges that artificial intelligence startup Anthropic committed "brazen infringement" by using "hundreds of thousands" of copyrighted books to train "Claude," its flagship collection of large language models (LLM).

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