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A group of authors is suing artificial intelligence startup Anthropic, alleging it committed “large-scale theft” in training its popular chatbot Claude on pirated copies of copyrighted books

FILE - The Anthropic website and mobile phone app are shown in this photo, in New York, July 5, 2024. have piled up for more than a year against competitor OpenAI, maker of ChatGPT, this is the first from writers to target Anthropic and its Claude chatbot.

But the lawsuit filed Monday in a federal court in San Francisco alleges that Anthropic's actions “have made a mockery of its lofty goals” by tapping into repositories of pirated writings to build its AI product. While it's the first case against Anthropic from book authors, the company is also fighting a lawsuit by major music publishers alleging that Claude regurgitates the lyrics of copyrighted songs.

OpenAI and its business partner Microsoft are already battling a group of copyright infringement cases led by household names like John Grisham, Jodi Picoult and “Game of Thrones” novelist George R. R. Martin; and another set of lawsuits from media outlets such as

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