A gaggle of writers, together with Theranos whistleblower and “Unhealthy Blood” writer John Carreyrou, is submitting a lawsuit in opposition to Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, Meta, xAI, and Perplexity, accusing the businesses of coaching their fashions on pirated copies of their books.
If this sounds acquainted, it’s as a result of one other set of authors already filed a category motion go well with in opposition to Anthropic for these similar acts of copyright infringement. In that case, the choose dominated that it was authorized for Anthropic and related AI firms to coach on pirated copies of books, however that it was not authorized to pirate the books within the first place.
Whereas eligible writers can obtain about $3,000 from the $1.5 billion Anthropic settlement, some authors have been dissatisfied with that decision — it doesn’t maintain AI firms accountable for the precise act of utilizing stolen books to coach their fashions, which generate billions of {dollars} in income.
In line with the brand new lawsuit, the plaintiffs say that the proposed Anthropic settlement “appears to serve [the AI companies], not creators.”
“LLM firms shouldn’t be in a position to so simply extinguish hundreds upon hundreds of high-value claims at bargain-basement charges, eliding what ought to be the true price of their huge willful infringement,” the lawsuit says.
