Aug 26, 05:30 PM

Anthropic Settles Authors’ Copyright Class Action Over AI Training Data

Anthropic PBC has reached a settlement in a high-profile copyright class action brought by U.S. authors who alleged that the artificial-intelligence company illegally used their books to train its models. In a joint filing on Tuesday with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, both sides asked the court to pause proceedings while they finalize a deal outlined in a binding term sheet signed on Aug. 25. The lawsuit—Bartz v. Anthropic PBC—had been cleared to proceed as a class action by U.S. District Judge William Alsup, who found that as many as 7 million works from two pirate databases may have been copied, exposing Anthropic to potential damages running into billions of dollars. A jury trial had been scheduled for December in San Francisco before the company appealed the class-certification ruling. Terms of the settlement were not disclosed, and the parties said further details will be released in the coming weeks. The case is one of several pending challenges to how generative-AI developers obtain and use copyrighted materials, a legal question that is shaping the contours of the fast-growing sector.

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Anthropic Settles Authors’ Copyright Class Action Over AI Training Data

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