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Authors sue Claude AI chatbot creator Anthropic for copyright infringement
A group of authors is suing artificial intelligence startup Anthropic, alleging it committed “large-scale theft” in training its popular chatbot Claude on pirated copies of copyrighted books
But the lawsuit filed Monday 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. OpenAI and its business partner Microsoft are already battling a group of copyright infringement cases led by household names like John Grisham, Jodi Picoult and “Game of Thrones” novelist George R. R. Martin; and another set of lawsuits from media outlets such as The New York Times, Chicago Tribune and Mother Jones. What links all the cases is the claim that tech companies ingested huge troves of human writings to train AI chatbots to produce human-like passages of text, without getting permission or compensating the people who wrote the original works.
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