Anthropic being taken to court by writers over alleged misapplication of copyrighted materials for AI education

Profound AI enterprise Anthropic is currently entangled in a fresh legal dispute subsequent to three authors initiating a collective lawsuit in a federal court in California, alleging the firm of illicitly utilizing their copyrighted materials for educat

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The legal claim, submitted on Monday, asserts that Anthropic employed unauthorized copies of literature produced by writers Andrea Bartz, Charles Graeber, and Kirk Wallace Johnson, among various others, to construct its AI algorithms lacking legitimate permission or remuneration.

This legal action is the recent among a series of prominent lawsuits brought forth by copyright possessors against AI enterprises for deploying safeguarded content like essays, novels, and artwork for developing generative AI platforms. This scenario follows analogous legal actions against prominent tech companies such as OpenAI and Meta, wherein authors assert their works were abused to coach extensive language models without seeking their approval.

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