A collective copyright claim recently filed against Anthropic, founded by OpenNAI extrabajadores and Claude creators, ensures that the company specialized in artificial intelligence solutions infringed the rights of the authors when using their work (without permission) to train their AI.
Copyright is one of the black points of artificial intelligence research. The protection of content creators has shone by their absence. This is a ‘jungle’ where The AI train and learn from any site And so we have seen previous cases against Meta and Openai accused of using (without permission or compensation) thousands of books for training of their models. And what we know is only the tip of the iceberg. There are infinite cases of professionals, journalists or teachers whose rights have been violated.
Interested companies (those that earn billions with this AI) say if they were forced to comply with the copyright protection laws, artificial intelligence would cease to exist, at least as what we have known so far. And it is that the investigation in AI began without any control and thus continues: caught and rapiño.
IA y Copyright, a debate
Hence the importance of this complaint against Anthropic, which has become the Greater collective demand for copyright ever certifiedand the American district judge William Alsup has allowed even 7 million plaintiffs They join her. According to Wired, less than a month after the presentation of the claim, the judge announced that Anthropic and the authors who presented it could have reached a principle of agreement.
While the details of the agreement have not yet been completed or announced, lawyers representing the plaintiffs trust that this «Historical agreement will benefit all group members». According to Wired, it seems that Anthropic could be solving the case precisely To avoid going to a trial that would end up sitting doctrine. And this despite the fact that the same judge had previously ruled that the use of legally acquired books to train AI models was considered a legitimate use.
The case in question seems to depend on the fact that the way Anthropic obtained some of the books could be considered directly piracy. Supposedly, the company would have used up to 7 million books in its training, which could have generated damage to More than one billion dollarsaccording to some estimates.
According to the law firm that represents the plaintiffs, the details of the agreement will be announced in the coming weeks. The great artificial intelligence firms They fear that this case may sit precedent for similar ones in the future. And have to pay millions of dollars in fines/compensation and return to the exit box for a responsible for the rights of others. Also the content authors.
