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Anthropic is appealing a judge's decision that would allow potentially millions of authors to sue for copyright infringement together.

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AI Industry Warns That New Lawsuit Could Destroy It Entirely

By Frank Landymore

To train its AI models, Anthropic stripped the pages out of millions of physical books before immediately tossing them out.

Anthropic Shredded Millions of Physical Books to Train its AI

By Frank Landymore

Fresh on the heels from his exit from Meta, former Facebook executive Nick Clegg is defending AI against copyright holders.

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Legendary Facebook Exec Scoffs, Says AI Could Never Be Profitable If Tech Companies Had to Ask for Artists’ Consent to Ingest Their Work

By Noor Al-Sibai

Accused of illegally using copyrighted books to train its AI, Meta argues that those books are individually worthless.

Meta Says It’s Okay to Feed Copyrighted Books Into Its AI Model Because They Have No “Economic Value”

By Frank Landymore

A handy new search engine is helping writers and artists find out if their work was illegally used to train AI.

Cool Site Shows Exactly Which Books Zuckerberg’s Minions Illegally Downloaded to Train Meta’s AI

OpenAI is raising the specter of China and predicting the US will lose the AI race if it's unable to scrape copyrighted materials.

OpenAI Says It’s “Over” If It Can’t Steal All Your Copyrighted Work

By Noor Al-Sibai

Newly unredacted court documents allege that Facebook knowingly used pirated books from the database LibGen to train its AI models.

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Facebook Apparently Trained Its AI by Torrenting Pirated Books Stolen From Authors

By Frank Landymore

A former OpenAI staffer is blowing the whistle on the company's AI training practices, alleging they violated copyright law.

OpenAI Whistleblower Disgusted That His Job Was to Vacuum Up Copyrighted Data to Train Its Models

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The proposed law would require businesses to disclose a list of all the copyrighted content they used in a training data set for any models.

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New Law Would Force AI Companies to Reveal Copyrighted Training Data

By Sharon Adarlo

Professor and author Gary Marcus argues that AI image generators could land OpenAI and Midjourney in a "copyright minefield."

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AI Image Generators Are Spitting Out Copyrighted Characters, Raising Possibility of Catastrophic Lawsuit

By Victor Tangermann

DABUS is fully autonomous, argues its creator Stepher Thaler, and anything that it creates should be patentable. The courts don't agree.

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Inventor Claims His AI Is Sentient, Fights to Copyright Its Creations

By Frank Landymore