Should tech companies have free access to copyrighted books and articles for training their AI models? Two judges recently nudged us toward an answer.More than 40 lawsuits have been filed against AI companies since 2022. The specifics vary, but they generally seek to hold these companies accountable for stealing millions of copyrighted works to develop their technology. (The Atlantic is involved in one such lawsuit, against the AI firm Cohere.) Late last month, there were rulings on two of these cases, first in a lawsuit against Anthropic and, two days later, in one against Meta. Both of the cases were brought by book authors who alleged that AI companies had trained large language models using authors’ work without consent or compensation.In each case, the judges decided that the tech companies were engaged in “fair use” when they trained their models with authors’ books. Both judges said that the use of… ...[TheTopNews] Read More.
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