The Authors Guild lawsuit is one of the key AI cases to watch and is being decided in the Southern District of New York. It has been consolidated with several other cases from a range of authors. The suit alleges that some ChatGPT output constitutes copyright infringement. Learn more.
This is not the same allegation made in the two AI lawsuits decided earlier this year in the Northern District of California. Those lawsuits argued that AI training constituted copyright infringement, and in the Anthropic case, the judge ruled that AI training is fair use. The $1.5 billion settlement that Anthropic is expected to pay to rightsholders is the result of the company pirating materials for training, not the training itself.
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