Anthropic Agrees to Pay $1.5 Billion to Settle Lawsuit with Book Authors
New York Times
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Kristian Stout, ICLE Director of Innovation Policy, was quoted in this The NewYork Times article on Anthropic’s $1.5 Billion copyright settlement over using pirated books to train AI. Read the full article here.
Still, the Anthropic settlement ”should not be misread as a referendum against A.I. training,” said Kristian Stout, director of innovation policy at the International Center for Law and Economics. ”Rather, it underscores the distinction between transformative model training and the impermissible creation of pirated libraries.”
”The lesson for A.I. developers is clear: Respect copyright in how data sets are acquired, and follow the example Anthropic itself has now committed to,” he added.