See what 10M+ investors are talking about. Get the Stocktwits Daily Rip for what retail is watching right now, free to your inbox<\/a> <\/p>\nHowever, since Anthropic was converting the original physical texts into digital copies \u2014 rather than redistributing them as new copies \u2014 a judge found this to be “transformative” and therefore protected by fair use. In fact, 404 Media reported there exist services \u2013 one such being ISBNdb \u2013 that offer AI companies rare books and keep buyers’ identities anonymous. <\/p>\n
Last week, Anthropic agreed to pay $1.5 billion to settle a class-action lawsuit alleging it used hundreds of thousands of pirated books to train its Claude AI models, marking the largest copyright settlement in U.S. history. Still, Anthropic faced backlash on X. <\/p>\n
Posting through X, noted investor Michael Burry wrote “Evil incarnate” in response to a user’s post about the said practice, and Tesla and SpaceX founder said he had asked the SpaceXAI team to preserve any rare books in a library and “scan them the hard way vs just cutting off the spine and scanning.” <\/p>\n
“Anthropic maintains that it is entitled to train for free on all the world’s output, even if the author objects. But if a competitor trains on Anthropic’s output after paying for it, that is IP theft. The hypocrisy is breathtaking,” venture capitalist and chair of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology David Sacks said in an X post. <\/p>\n
AI copyright suits are not new. Over the past three years, authors, news publishers, artists and image libraries have filed dozens of lawsuits against AI companies, alleging they copied copyrighted books, articles, images and other creative works without permission to train generative AI models. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last week, Anthropic agreed to pay $1.5 billion to settle a class-action lawsuit alleging it used hundreds of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":85903,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[3224,53,3236,62109,62108,62110,1328,25567],"class_list":["post-123158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anthropic","tag-ai-company","tag-anthropic","tag-claude-ai","tag-copyright-lawsuits","tag-david-sachs","tag-image-libraries","tag-michael-burry","tag-news-publishers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123158\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}