June 25, 2011 - Technology media outlet AppleInsider released a blog post yesterday (June 24) reporting thatUSAThe decision by the District Court for the Northern District of California to allow the use of copyrighted works to train artificial intelligence models poses a significant threat to the creative industries. The decision upholds defendant Anthropic's use of pirated material to train its AI models, sparking a controversy over creators' rights.
Content creators and artists have suffered for years from AI companies crawling the content of their websites and scanning books to train large-scale language models (LLMs) without permission, 1AI cites a blog post. which are then used in generative AI and other machine learning tasks.and commercialized by the crawling company without any compensation to the original author or content provider.
For this reason Andrea Bartz, Charles Graeber, and Kirk Wallace Johnson filed suit in the District Court for the Northern District of California in 2024.Allegations that Anthropic used pirated material to train its Claude AI model.
Judge William Alsup sustained some of the parties' claims, but theultimately favored Anthropic and the AI grabbing companies, arguing that copies used to train specific large language models were fair use.
The outlet sees the ruling as bad news for artists, musicians, and writers, and problematic for other industries that may be threatened by machine-learning models.AI models capitalize on the hard work and life experiences of media creators, claiming them as their own while leaving content producers with few weapons to combat the phenomenon.