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.
When you “steal” something, the original owner doesn’t have that thing anymore.
When you “copy” something, the original owner still had it.
Stop calling it stealing, damnit! We fought these wars with the MPAA and RIAA in the 90s. By calling it “stealing” you’re siding the the older villains.
AI isn’t stealing or copying anything. It’s generating stuff. If it was truly copying things that would mean someone wrote all that “AI slop” that’s poisoning everyone’s search results.