Authors Allege Anthropic Stole Thousands of Books for AI Training in New Lawsuit

The literary world is abuzz as a group of writers has filed a lawsuit against Anthropic, a San Francisco-based AI research company, for allegedly stealing “hundreds of thousands” of books to train its AI models. The complaint, lodged on Monday in the Northern District of California, contends that Anthropic unlawfully downloaded and copied pirated copies of these works. These materials were allegedly used to train the company’s large language models, which aim to simulate human communication and generate predictive responses through the algorithmic processing of ingested datasets. Further details can be found here.