Ray Seilie recently spoke to Slate about the summary judgment in Bartz v. Anthropic, where a judge ruled that the AI startup did not violate the principles of fair use by using the works of authors Andrea Bartz, Charles Graeber, and Kirk Wallace Johnson to train Claude, its chatbot.
The article, entitled “The Court Battles That Will Decide if Silicon Valley Can Plunder Your Work,” explains that the results of this and similar copyright cases could set a precedent for AI firms freely accessing creatives’ works.
Ray explains that while AI chatbots are barred from generating responses that exactly copy or significantly resemble authors’ works used in their training data under fair use, filters that prevent this from occurring while still utilizing their content to train the software are allowed.
“The Anthropic LLM implements filters so that if you have a user who asks for basically an entire work, the LLM is not going to give them that,” Ray tells Slate.
