An American judge approved subject to the exceptional agreement on Thursday that the new artificial intelligence company Anthrope concluded with authors and editors who were chasing the company for illegally downloading millions of books, according to a judicial source.
Anthrope, who develops the models of the so -called Claude, had signed an agreement of at least $ 1.5 billion for a compensation fund and editors of an authors, to close the case in early September.
This agreement is not the first of its kind, but its very substantial amount raised it between references in the debate on the use of data to develop and cause the main generative models.
On Thursday, a federal judge of San Francisco, William Alsup, agreed to execute this commitment, before the final approval in several months to verify the capital of his application.
A committed commitment
Basically, the Californian magistrate had considered in June that feeding a generative model with works in theory protected by copyright did not constitute a crime, because this respected the principle of fair use, which would probably limit intellectual property rights.
But the judge had grown in anthropic to have downloaded and stored bookstore books online instead of legally buying them, racing the way for the damages that the court had to study in December.
The new company, valued at 183 billion dollars at the beginning of September, risked to receive a very higher sum than the one planned in the transaction, to the point of endangering its own existence.
“As we have always said, the historical decision issued by the Court in June, according to which the training of AI is a fair use,” said Sridhar, Deputy Legal Director of Anthrope on Thursday.
Mirobal amount
The amount of $ 1.5 billion announced is a minimum and could increase if the final list of the books in question, which have not yet stopped, exceeded 500,000. In which case, Anthrope would pay $ 3,000 more for work.
Many files are still ongoing before the US courts, initiated by writers, musicians or press editors for the unauthorized use of their production.
In June, in a similar case on goal, another federal magistrate of San Francisco had agreed to the giant of social networks, while explaining that the plaintiffs should attack other arguments to obtain their case.
Source: BFM TV
