A gaggle of writers, together with Theranos whistleblower and “Unhealthy Blood” creator John Carreyrou, is submitting a lawsuit towards 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 towards Anthropic for these identical acts of copyright infringement. In that case, the decide 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.
Based on 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 capable of so simply extinguish hundreds upon hundreds of high-value claims at bargain-basement charges, eliding what must be the true value of their huge willful infringement,” the lawsuit says.
