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Artificial intelligence firm Anthropic hits out at copyright lawsuit filed by music publishing corporations, claiming the content ingested into its models falls under ‘fair use’ and that any licensing regime created to manage its use of copyrighted material in training data would be too complex and costly to work in practice

Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) company Anthropic has claimed to a US court that using copyrighted content in large language model (LLM) training data counts as “fair use”, however.

Under US law, “fair use” permits the limited use of copyrighted material without permission, for purposes such as criticism, news reporting, teaching, and research.

In October 2023, a host of music publishers including Concord, Universal Music Group and ABKCO initiated legal action against the Amazon- and Google-backed generative AI firm Anthropic, demanding potentially millions in damages for the allegedly “systematic and widespread infringement of their copyrighted song lyrics”.

  • helenslunch
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    5 months ago

    You do realize that lemmy contains very many users

    Already addressed in another comment.

    part of the problem is that these LLMs very often do directly copy and spit out articles and random forum posts and etc word-for-word verbatim

    It’s a problem they’ve acknowledged and are actively working on.

    Plus, copyright law, if it exists, must apply to everyone, including major coporations.

    Well many people here would disagree. That was the entire point of my comment.