In a trial case for the artificial intelligence industry, a federal judge has decided that the AI Anthropic company did not break the law by teaching its negotiations on millions of copyright books.
But the company is still in the hook and must now go to be charged on how it got the books by downloading them from the “shadow libraries” of the pirated copies.
Basic District Judge William Alsup of San Francisco said in a decision presented on Monday that the AI system continues from thousands of written works to provide his graduate text as “justice use” under the American Copyright Act because it was “normal change.”
“If any reader wants to be a writer, anthropic models (big language models) taught on the job are not running forward and imitating or lifting – but turning a hard corner and creating something different,” Alsup wrote.
But when dismissing the key allegations made by a group of writers who accused the company of copyright violations last year, Alsup also said anthropic should be charged in December over his allegations of theft of their work.
“Anthropic had no right to use pirated copies for his main library,” Alsup wrote.
Three of the writers-Andrea Bartz, Charles Graeber and Kirk Wallace Johnson-claimed in their charges last season that anthropic practices were “serious theft,” and that the company “seeks to benefit from extracting expression and cunning behind each of those functions.”
While the case continued more than a year ago in the San Francisco Federal Court, documents revealed in the court expressed an anthropic internal concern over the validity of their use of piracy labor records. So the company later changed its path and tried to buy copies of digital books.
“Since anthropic later bought a copy of a book that stolen earlier on the Internet will not eliminate the role of theft but could affect the level of legal damage,” Alsup wrote.
That decision could set an example of Similar cases which have emerged against Anthropic Openai competitor, ChatGpt manufacturer, and also against Meta platforms, Facebook's parent company and Instagram.
Anthropic-developed by former Openai leaders in 2021-has sold himself as the most responsible and focused developer of AI models that can compose emails, summarize the documents and interact with people in a natural way.
But the charges filed last year claimed that anthropic actions “have made the rumors of its high goals” by tapping in piracy written records to create its AI product.
Anthropic said on Tuesday it was pleased that the judge recognized that AI training was a change and is in line with “Copyright purpose in facilitating creativity and promoting scientific development.” His statement did not address piracy claims.
The lawyers of the authors rejected the comments.