Academics Sue Apple Over AI Training Copyright Violations

Academics Sue Apple Over AI Training Copyright Violations

In September, the technology company Anthropic agreed to a $1.5 billion settlement with writers over pirated copies of their work that was used to train Anthropic’s Ai software. Anthropic was not the only tech company that used massive collections of books for training purposes — The Atlantic‘s Alex Reisner has gathered plenty of information on this very subject — and other lawsuits in a similar vein have been filed. (Full disclosure: several of…