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Is it legal to teach AI models on copyrighted books
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Most published authors have, without their knowledge or consent, contributed to the development of the same AI tools that threaten to undermine their livelihoods.
Key facts
- Last year, in one of the first rulings of its kind, Judge William Alsup ordered Anthropic to pay a mammoth $1.5 billion copyright settlement to a group of writers whose works were used to train
- Copyright law hasn’t been updated since 1976, which means that judges have to figure out how to interpret guidelines from 50 years ago when confronting legal questions that have the potential
- Everybody is worried right now because the law is all over the place, and it’s because of this question,” Jason Henderson, Senior Attorney and Founder of the IP & Media Practice at JWL
- Ross’s use is not transformative because it does not have a ‘further purpose or different character’ than Thomson Reuters’s,” Judge Stephanos Bibas wrote last year
Summary
You probably know by now that the AI models powering ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and other chatbots are trained on seemingly infinite databases of published works, containing hundreds of millions of books, online articles, academic papers, and anything you can find on the internet. “I think one of the issues with this entire area of law and this entire area of technology is there’s a lot going on,” Cathy Gellis, an attorney with expertise in intellectual property, copyright, and technology, told TechCrunch. Last year, in one of the first rulings of its kind, Judge William Alsup ordered Anthropic to pay a mammoth $1.5 billion copyright settlement to a group of writers whose works were used to train the company’s AI models.
“I think it is generally good news for AI training that he looked at what was going on and sort of thought it analogous to reading a copyrighted work as opposed to copying a copyrighted work,” Gellis said.