Anthropic is also facing a lawsuit from music publishers.
A group of writers is suing artificial intelligence startup Anthropic, claiming the company committed “mass theft” by training its chatbot Claude with copies of copyrighted books.
Similar lawsuits have been filed against rival OpenAI’s ChatGPT, but this is the first case brought by writers against Anthropic.
Former OpenAI leaders founded the San Francisco-based company. According to Fast Company, the company has marketed itself as “more responsible and security-focused than AI models that can write emails and summarize documents. ”
However, the lawsuit alleges that the company’s actions “made a mockery of its lofty goals” by accessing pirated book repositories to build its AI.
The trio of writers Andrea Bartz, Charles Graeber, and Kirk Wallace Johnson filed the lawsuit. All three seek to represent a class of fiction and nonfiction authors in similar situations.
Legal Trouble
In addition to the lawsuit filed by the book authors, Anthropic is also facing a lawsuit filed by music publishers who claim that Claude recycles copyrighted song lyrics.
OpenAI and Microsoft, partners in the AI business, also need help. They are facing a copyright infringement lawsuit filed by a group led by John Grisham (author of “The Firm” and “The Pelican Brief,” for example) and George R. R. Martin (of “Game of Thrones”), in addition to other lawsuits from media outlets such as The New York Times, Chicago Tribune, and Mother Jones.
Anthropic launches Claude in Brazil with a focus on corporate use
Since the beginning of the month, end consumers and companies will be able to access the tool online through free applications for Android and iOS (Claude 3.5 Sonnet version) and channels for developers to integrate the feature into their applications.
Claude’s unique feature lies in its corporate use. In recent tests, it has proven to be better than the rich ones in managing tasks involving large volumes of data, mathematical calculations, and programming codes.
Source: Exame
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