Authors Say Anthropic Waived Privilege in AI Copyright Lawsuit

Anthropic PBC can’t shield relevant communications with its lawyers if it says it believed using pirated datasets to train its model was lawful, authors suing the company over its AI-training processes told a federal judge.

Anthropic impliedly waived attorney-client privilege when it asserted affirmative defenses of innocent infringement ad non-willful conduct, authors including Andrea Bartz and Charles Graeber said Thursday in a filing replying to Anthropic’s response to an order to show cause in the US District Court for the Northern District of California.

The July 24 order directed Anthropic to show cause why its affirmative defenses shouldn’t be stricken ...