Judge William H. Alsup turned his San Francisco courtroom into a lecture hall for two hours Thursday. The lesson: a crash course on how the large language models powering popular AI chatbots work.
Attorneys for the AI startup Anthropic PBC and a group of novelists suing the company for copying their books without permission lectured the judge on the key technology involved in building and training Anthropic’s chatbot Claude.
The parties, who got equal time to present power point slides, largely found agreement on the basic facts underlying the case: an AI company downloads large swaths of text which then ...
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