Anthropic settled a class-action lawsuit brought by fiction and non-fiction authors and filed notice with the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. The company had previously won a partial victory in a lower court and was appealing that ruling. The dispute arose from Anthropic's use of books to train its large language models. The lower court found the use qualified as fair use, but many of the books were pirated, exposing Anthropic to potential financial penalties. No settlement terms were disclosed and Anthropic did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Anthropic has settled a class action lawsuit with a group of fiction and non-fiction authors, as announced in a filing on Tuesday with the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Anthropic had won a partial victory in a lower court ruling, and was in the process of appealing that ruling. No details of the settlement were made public, and Anthropic did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Called Bartz v. Anthropic, the case deals with Anthropic's use of books as training material for its large language models. The court had ruled that Anthropic's use of the books qualified as fair use, but because many of the books were pirated, Anthropic still faced significant financial penalties for its conduct connected to the case. Nonetheless, Anthropic had applauded the earlier ruling, framing it as a victory for generative AI models.
"We believe it's clear that we acquired books for one purpose only - building large language models - and the court clearly held that use was fair," the company told NPR after the ruling in June.
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