Anthropic selection, Amazonsupported AI The startup was hit with a class-action lawsuit in California federal court on Monday over alleged copyright infringement. The three authors stated In the process of filing Anthropic “built a multi-billion dollar business by stealing hundreds of thousands of copyrighted books, including their own.”
Anthropic was founded by former OpenAI research executives and its backers include Google and salesperson.
Authors Andrea Bartz, Charles Graeber and Kirk Wallace Johnson allege in the lawsuit that “an important component of Anthropic’s business model— and its flagship ‘Claude’ family of large language models (or ‘LLMs’) – was theft of copyrighted works on a massive scale,” later claiming that “Anthropic downloaded known pirated versions of Plaintiffs’ works, made copies of them, and made these pirated copies The copy is fed into its model.
The lawsuit follows Anthropic’s Coming in June Claude 3.5 Sonnet, the most powerful artificial intelligence model to date. Claude is one of the chatbots such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT and GoogleGemini, has exploded in popularity over the past year.
“Copyright law prohibits Anthropic from doing what it did here: downloading and copying hundreds of thousands of copyrighted books obtained from pirated and illegal websites,” the lawsuit states.
Anthropic did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
This week’s case also follows another lawsuit filed against Anthropic last October. Universal Music sues the startup “Systemic and widespread infringement of its copyrighted lyrics,” according to a filing in a federal court in Tennessee. Other music publishers such as Concord and ABKCO are also named as plaintiffs.
One example from Universal Music’s lawsuit: When a user asked Anthropic’s AI chatbot Claude for lyrics to Katy Perry’s song “Roar,” it generated “nearly identical copies of those lyrics.” , infringing upon the rights of copyright holder Concord, according to the filing. The lawsuit also lists Gloria Gaynor’s “I Will Survive” as an example of Anthropic’s alleged copyright infringement, since Universal owns the rights to its lyrics.
“In the process of building and operating artificial intelligence models, Anthropic illegally copied and distributed numerous copyrighted works,” the lawsuit states, adding that “like developers of other technologies before it, from printing press to copy. From machines to web crawlers, artificial intelligence companies must comply with the law.
As the news industry generally struggles to maintain enough advertising and subscription revenue to pay for its expensive newsgathering operations, many news publications and media organizations are actively working to protect their businesses as AI-generated content becomes more common. .
The Center for Investigative Reporting is the oldest nonprofit newsroom in the United States. sued OpenAI and key supporters Microsoft June went on trial in federal court for alleged copyright infringement, followed by similar Litigation in publications includes new york timesthe Chicago Tribune and the New York Daily News.
In December, the New York Times Microsoft OpenAI accused the news content appearing in the ChatGPT training materials of infringing intellectual property rights. The Times says it’s looking to take stakes in Microsoft, OpenAI Responsible According to a filing in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, there are “billions of dollars in statutory and actual damages” related to “the unlawful copying and use of The New York Times’ unique and valuable works.” Open artificial intelligence disagree and The Times’ account of events.
The Chicago Tribune and seven other newspapers followed suit April.
Beyond the news, including Jonathan Franzen, John Grisham, George RR Martin and Jodi Picoult a group of famous American writers, Sue OpenAI Last year, they were accused of copyright infringement by using their work to train ChatGPT.
But not all news organizations are ready for battle, and some are joining forces with artificial intelligence startups.
Tuesday, OpenAI announced In partnership with Condé Nast, ChatGPT and SearchGPT will feature content from Vogue, The New Yorker, Condé Nast Traveler, GQ, Architectural Digest, Vanity Fair, Wired, Bon Appétit and others media content.
July, Perplexity AI Launched revenue sharing model for the first time For publishers who have been suffering from plagiarism accusations for more than a month. Media and content platforms including Fortune, Time, Entrepreneur, The Texas Tribune, Der Spiegel and WordPress.com are the first to join the company’s Publisher Program .
Open artificial intelligence and Time magazine A “multi-year content deal” announced In June, OpenAI will be able to access current and archived articles from Time magazine’s more than 100-year history. OpenAI will be able to display Time Magazine content in its ChatGPT chatbot to answer user questions. Press releaseand uses Time magazine content to “enhance its products,” or possibly train its artificial intelligence models.
OpenAI announced a similar partnership in May News Corpallowing OpenAI to access current and archived articles from The Wall Street Journal, MarketWatch, Barron’s, The New York Post, and other publications. Reddit also announced In May, it will partner with OpenAI to allow the company to train its artificial intelligence models on Reddit content.
