Inside the Explosive Anthropic Class-Action Lawsuit That Could Rewrite AI’s Future
Anthropic is an AI company, the creator of the AI tool Claude, which is similar to ChatGPT. If you’re a published author, then this matters to you, because Anthropic has recently settled a class-action lawsuit filed by lawyers on behalf of authors.
Standard disclaimer: I am not a lawyer, and nothing I say here should be construed as legal advice. The case is complicated, and I can’t claim to fully understand it all. So this my best attempt to explain the situation in simple terms.
The plaintiffs alleged that Anthropic trained its AI model on books downloaded from two pirate sites, Library Genesis and Pirate Library Mirror. Anthropic denies the claims, but it has agreed to pay out $1.5 billion to authors. The estimated number of books alleged to be used for training Anthropic’s AI is about half a million.
