Get updates delivered to you daily. Free and customizable.
Windows Central
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's words haunt Claude AI: "Anthropic’s model seeks to profit from strip-mining the human expression and ingenuity behind each one of those works"
By Kevin Okemwa,
1 day ago
What you need to know
Anthropic has been slapped with a lawsuit by a group of authors for copyright infringement.
The company is allegedly training its Claude AI model using the authors' content without consent or compensation.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman had previously admitted it's impossible to create ChatGPT-like tools without copyrighted content.
Per the complaint , Anthropic was spotted using the authors' work to train its Claude AI chatbot to respond to human prompts. The tech corporation indicated that it's aware and is currently assessing the class action lawsuit filed against it by authors Andrea Bartz, Charles Graeber, and Kirk Wallace Johnson over copyright infringement of their content.
According to the lawsuit:
"It is no exaggeration to say that Anthropic’s model seeks to profit from strip-mining the human expression and ingenuity behind each one of those works. Humans who learn from books buy lawful copies of them, or borrow them from libraries that buy them, providing at least some measure of compensation to authors and creators."
For context, Anthropic was founded in 2021 to make advances in the generative AI landscape and deploy safe and reliable models for everyone. As it happens, OpenAI co-founder John Schulman announced his departure from the ChatGPT maker to focus on AI alignment at Anthropic . It's often viewed as an OpenAI rival. Their flagship models spot multiple similarities.
In the interim, Anthropic is also fighting a separate lawsuit in the corridors of justice for allegedly using lyrics from copyrighted songs without consent or compensation. Major tech corporations in the AI space like Microsoft and OpenAI often brand the training of their models using copyright content as "fair use." They also indicated copyright law doesn't forbid the training of AI models using copyrighted content.
What would happen if AI models were barred from using copyrighted content?
Anthropic Claude 3.5 Sonnet model (Image credit: Anthropic)
While tech companies haven't been restricted from using copyrighted content for training their AI models, multiple reports indicate that the chatbots are seemingly getting dumber and often fall off the rails by generating inaccurate responses.
Get updates delivered to you daily. Free and customizable.
It’s essential to note our commitment to transparency:
Our Terms of Use acknowledge that our services may not always be error-free, and our Community Standards emphasize our discretion in enforcing policies. As a platform hosting over 100,000 pieces of content published daily, we cannot pre-vet content, but we strive to foster a dynamic environment for free expression and robust discourse through safety guardrails of human and AI moderation.
Comments / 0