US Judge sides with AI firm Anthropic over copyright issue

The American judge has eliminated that the use of books to train the artificial intelligence program (AI) is not a violation of the copyright law in the United States.

The decision came out of a lawsuit last year against the Anthropological Intelligence Company by three books, novelist, and non -fictional authors, who accused the company of stealing their work to train the Claude AI model and build billions of dollars in work.

In his rule, Judge William Al -Sop wrote that the use of Anthrobur for the authors’ books was “very transformed”, and therefore is allowed under American law.

But he rejected the Antarbur request to reject the case, so the company will have to be tried because of its use of pirated copies to build their material library.

Alphabet, a company supported by Amazon, Google, Alphabet, may face $ 150,000 of damage to every copyright -protected work.

The company owns more than seven million pirated books in a “central library”, according to the judge.

The ruling is among the first to study on a question that is the subject of many legal battles throughout the industry – how you can learn the large LLMS models (LLMS) legally from the current subjects.

Judge Alsup wrote: “Like any reader who aspires to be a writer, LLMS has been trained for the human month of works, not for the race forward and repeated or replaced – but to clarify a solid angle and create something different.”

“If this training process is reasonably required to perform copies inside LLM or otherwise, these copies were involved in the use of transformational,” he said.

He pointed out that the authors did not claim that the training led to a “violation of the judges” with a similar copy of their work that is created for the users of the Claude tool.

If they have, books, “This will be a different case.”

Similar legal battles have emerged about the use of the artificial intelligence industry and the other content, from press articles to music and video.

This month, Disney and Universal litigate Ay Midjourney’s image, accusing him of piracy.

BBC also Consider legal procedures On the unauthorized use of its content.

In response to legal battles, some artificial intelligence companies responded through great deals with creators of the original materials, or their publishers, to license materials for use.

Judge Alsup allowed the defense of the “fair use” of the anthropologist, which paves the way for future legal provisions.

However, he said that the Antarbur has violated the rights of authors by saving pirate copies of their books as part of the “Central Library of all books in the world”.

In a statement, Al -Anthourbri said that it was pleased that the judge confessed that his use of business was transformed, but he did not agree to the decision to conduct a trial on how to obtain some books and use them.

The company said that it remained confident in its case, and was evaluating its options.

A author’s lawyer refused to comment.

The authors who brought the case are Andrea Partz, the best -selling mystery writer, whose novels include that we were not here and the last phrase, and the non -fictional book Charles Gabbar and Kirk Wallace Johnson.