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Authors sue Anthropic for training AI using pirated books
More authors are going after AI companies.
The proposed class action lawsuit was filed in a California court on Monday and alleges Anthropic “built a multibillion-dollar business by stealing hundreds of thousands of copyrighted books.” “It is apparent that Anthropic downloaded and reproduced copies of The Pile and Books3, knowing that these datasets were comprised of a trove of copyrighted content sourced from pirate websites like Bibiliotik,” the lawsuit reads. Last year, former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee and other authors filed a similar lawsuit against Meta, Microsoft, and EleutherAI — the nonprofit behind The Pile — over allegations their work was pirated and used to train AI models.
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