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Using copyrighted books to train AI is 'fair use,' judge rules
Can AI companies use authors' creative works to train their chatbots? A San Francisco judge says yes.
The authors who sued said doing so “seeks to profit from strip-mining the human expression and ingenuity behind each one of those works” in the lawsuit.The case sets an important precedent for other large language models, including popular ones like ChatGPT, and how they’re allowed to use centuries of human-created works.According to The Associated Press, Anthropic said Tuesday it was pleased that the judge viewed AI training as transformative and consistent with “copyright’s purpose in enabling creativity and fostering scientific progress.” Its statement did not address the piracy claims.The authors' attorneys did not comment to the AP. “Like any reader aspiring to be a writer, Anthropic’s (AI large language models) trained upon works not to race ahead and replicate or supplant them — but to turn a hard corner and create something different,” Alsup wrote. According to The Associated Press, Anthropic said Tuesday it was pleased that the judge viewed AI training as transformative and consistent with “copyright’s purpose in enabling creativity and fostering scientific progress.” Its statement did not address the piracy claims.
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