Firehose

Anthropic's AI model Claude was trained on books from over 10 Stanford professors without permission, violating copyright laws, and the company has agreed to a $1.5 billion settlement with authors and publishers. A federal judge ruled that Anthropic could not continue to pirated books to train its models, but justified the use of books for fair use purposes, comparing it to how humans read and internalize a book's themes and style. The Authors Guild is pursuing further lawsuits against AI companies, including OpenAI and Microsoft, to require licensing and ensure authors are compensated for their work. AI summary