Will This Stop AI Companies From Getting Sued Over and Over?
Back in 2023, OpenAI dealt with one $3 billion class action lawsuit related to the “secret scraping” of data used to train ChatGPT models, in addition to a separate suit against both OpenAI and Meta, from authors accusing them of copyright infringement.
Today, similar cases are still making headlines. Anthropic just settled a class action lawsuit over hundreds of thousands of pirated books that were used to train AI chatbots. The $1.5 billion payout may still be subject to changes.
However, it’s easy to see why AI companies and online publishers are both interested in coming to a compromise.
If everyone wants to play ball, this new standard may be the best chance yet that AI-skeptical writers have of keeping their content from being scooped up by AI.
