Anthropic Hit With Copyright Suit From Authors Over Flagship AI

Anthropic PBC is facing another copyright lawsuit over the training of its generative AI models, this time from a group of authors who say the company used illegally downloaded versions of their works and tried to hide the extent of the infringement.

The authors bringing the proposed class action—Andrea Bartz, Charles Graeber, and Kirk Wallace Johnson—said Amazon.com Inc.-backed Anthropic has publicly said it used an open-source dataset called The Pile to train its AI “Claude.” The Pile contained within it another dataset called “Books3,” known to contain nearly 200,000 pirated books, including some written by the ...