Groundbreaking Court Rulings Could Upend the Future of AI Training and Copyright—What You Need to Know Now
I’m compelled by the nuance in the Bartz v. Anthropic opinion. From a copyright perspective AI systems are engaged in three acts that touch on copyright. The first is the sourcing of the training content. Given the fact that Anthropic has been deemed to have used pirated content sites, such as Books3, there is a real risk of this being proved in court, and if true, could expose to a significant pool of liability, running into the hundreds of millions of dollars. “The downloaded pirated copies used to build a central library were not justified by a fair use,” Judge Alsup wrote. “Every factor points against fair use.”
