A B.C. author is proposing a Canadian class-action lawsuit against a San Francisco-based artificial intelligence company alleging it used his and other people’s copyrighted work to train its computer system.
In a May 23 B.C. Supreme Court notice of civil claim, James Bernard MacKinnon alleges that Anthropic PBC set out to build an artificial intelligence large language model (LLM) — a technology trained on large amounts of text data to learn nuances of language.
Such models can be used for tasks like creative writing, translation or question answering.
“Anthropic has benefited from its use of the copyrighted work without licence or permission as that work allowed it to improve the
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