Copyright class actions could financially ruin AI industry, trade groups say.

Copyright class actions could financially ruin AI industry, trade groups say.

AI industry groups are urging an appeals court to block what they say is the largest copyright class action ever certified. They’ve warned that a single lawsuit raised by three authors over Anthropic’s AI training now threatens to “financially ruin” the entire AI industry if up to 7 million claimants end up joining the litigation and forcing a settlement.

Last week, Anthropic petitioned to appeal the class certification, urging the court to weigh questions that the district court judge, William Alsup, seemingly did not. Alsup allegedly failed to conduct a “rigorous analysis” of the potential class and instead based his judgment on his “50 years” of experience, Anthropic said.

  • @[email protected]English
    5•2 days ago

    I respectfully disagree. Meta was caught downloading books from Libgen, a piracy site, to “train” it’s models.

    That action itself can and should be punished. Yes. But that has nothing to do with AI.

    What AI models do in effect is scan information (i.e., copy), and distill and retain what they view as its essence. They can copy your voice, they can copy your face, and they can copy your distinctive artistic style. The only way they can do that is if the “training” copies and retains a portion of the original works.

    Is that what people think is happening? You don’t even have a layman’s understanding of this technology. At least watch a few videos on the topic.

    • @[email protected]
      7•2 days ago

      I think that copying my voice makes this robot a T-1000, and T-1000s are meant to be dunked in lava to save Sarah Connor.