We're seeing AI copyright cases come before the court system and sorting through their rulings. These cases will have direct ramifications on our industry and on how we're allowed to use AI moving forward. A recent federal court ruling has provided a nuanced outcome in the fair use lawsuit brought by authors and studios against Amazon-backed AI company, Anthropic. While the decision marks a key victory for Anthropic regarding the use of lawfully acquired copyrighted material for AI training, the company still faces an impending trial over allegations of utilizing pirated books.Let's break it down. Big Wins for AI As reported in The Hollywood Reporter, the lawsuit, filed by authors Andrea Bartz, Charles Graeber, and Kirk Wallace Johnson, accused Anthropic of large-scale copyright infringement, claiming the company profited from their works without authorization by using them to train its AI model, Claude. Obviously, this is something we should care about, because we know that AI companies are scraping the internet and gathering all the information, then using that information to create their own posts. If that information was copyrighted, this would represent an infringement on that. U.S. District Judge William Alsup's ruling found that Anthropic's use of legally purchased books to train its large language models (LLMs) was "quintessentially transformative" and therefore constituted "fair use" under U.S. copyright law. In layman's terms, it's saying that if the AI was trained on books they paid for, then that's basically akin to learning, and you can't call that ripping the books off...
Published By: NoFilmSchool - Wednesday, 25 June